Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index A kite is a bird, a member of any of several genera in the family Accipitridae in the raptor order Accipitriformes, related to the hawks, eagles, buzzards and Old World vultures. The typical kites in the genus Milvus include Red Kite and Black Kite. See also Black-winged Kite in the genus Elanus. A kite is a human-made object, design to fly by opposing the force of the wind with the tension of a string held by the operator. See: kite flying. A kite is also a diamond shaped quadrilateral. See: geometric kite. Mr Kite was a famous Victorian showman made famous (again) in the song Being For the Benefit of Mr Kite by the Beatles. Fred Kite was a character in I'm All Right Jack! played by Peter Sellers. This is a disambiguation page; that is, one that just points to other pages that might otherwise have the same name. If you followed a link here, you might want to go back and fix that link to point to the appropriate specific page. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.