Milvus migrans is a medium-sized raptor, about fifty centimeters long, six million strong across four continents, and it eats garbage for a living. In northern Australia, three raptor species including the black kite have been documented carrying smoldering sticks from active wildfires and dropping them into unburned grass to flush prey. Aboriginal communities have known this for forty thousand years. Western science caught up in 2017. Tool use by a bird, and the tool is fire.