The double-toothed kite (Harpagus bidentatus) is a species of bird of prey in subfamily Accipitrinae, the "true" hawks, of family Accipitridae.

Subspecies H. b. fasciatus is found from Jalisco and southern Veracruz in Mexico through the Caribbean slopes of Guatemala, Belize, and Honduras and both slopes of Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama into western Colombia and western Ecuador.

[7] The double-toothed kite primarily inhabits the interior of mature subtropical and tropical forest.

It dives to take prey; in one study about 2/3 of the captures were directly from vegetation, most of the rest in flight, and a small percentage from the ground.

Its prey includes insects (such as butterflies, cicadas, grasshoppers, katydids, crickets, beetles, wasps, caterpillars, and cockroaches) and small vertebrates (mostly anoles and geckos but also iguanas, bats, birds, rodents, and snakes).

[5][9][10] The double-toothed kite's breeding season varies widely over its very large range but appears to generally be in the local spring and early summer.

Females make a saucer nest of small twigs in a tree fork as high as 33 m (110 ft) above the ground, sometimes with help from the male.

The double-toothed kite makes high-pitched calls "'tsip-tsip-tsip-tsip-wheeeeeoooip', extended 'wheeeeoooo' or 'cheeeeee-it'" in nest defence or other agonistic encounters.

It has an extremely large range and an estimated population of at least a half million mature individuals.