Sometimes, despite putting in the effort, you don’t get the reward you'd hoped for. This is how I felt about my failure to get to grips with one of the America's most intriguing raptors, the Snail Kite Rostrhamus sociabilis. There are populations in the Florida Everglades, parts of the Caribbean, Central America and a great proportion of the tropical areas of South America. Despite having visited many of these areas, multiple times in some cases, it was a species I somehow ke