Red kite chicks head for Spain as UK returns favour for reintroduction scheme Spain provided the birds that have help restore the once-vanished species to English skies. Emily Beament.

Red kite chicks are to be sent to Spain where their population is dwindling, after a successful reintroduction scheme saw numbers skyrocket in Britain. The birds of prey were initially imported to ...

Red Kite pictured in Wicklow TWO generations of newly released red kite birds of prey have been illegally poisoned. A dead juvenile bird found in Wicklow town was the offspring of an adult female ...

Young red kites hunker down in a Berlin nest. Accipiter/Wikipedia, CC BY-SA. The authors concluded that some chicks born during a drought year, like 2022 in England and Wales, continued to face ...

One of the 30 red kite chicks sent to Ireland in a project to reintroduce the species there has been found shot dead. The kite was among a batch taken from Powys to the mountains of County Wicklow six ...

Red kites have bred in Cumbria for the first time in more than 200 years. The Forestry Commission has been carrying out a reintroduction project at Grizedale Forest, with 90 birds released since 2010.

Years of patient efforts to reintroduce red kites into Ireland have resulted in three chicks being fledged in two nests in Fingal this year, the Golden Eagle Trust (GET) said. Mary Carolan Mon ...

Red kite chicks bred and reared in Northamptonshire have now been released in the Lake District. The 30 chicks from Rockingham Forest were transported to Cumbria where they were kept in special ...

Red kite chick bred in Derbyshire for first time in 150 years. The last pair to breed was back in 1863. derbytelegraph. Bookmark. Share; Comments; News. By. Jordan Coussins. 00:01, 22 AUG 2018; ...

The female red kite and her two chicks were found dead in a nest near Katesbridge in Co Down. ... Red kites became extinct in Ireland in the 18th century, but in 2008 the RSPB, ...

A project to bring red kites back to UK skies is now sending chicks to help conservation efforts in Spain, which supplied birds for the highly successful reintroduction scheme. Conservationists ...