The striking gold/red plumage and characteristic forked tail of the red kite have always been a joy to behold from the ground ...

A British red kite emerges from an aviary in the remote hills of western Spain and takes flight. At six months old, this is its first taste of freedom. Without a sound, it soars high in the sky above ...

A programme to reintroduce red kites into wild has been hailed "the UK's biggest conservation success story". The birds were wiped out in Scotland and England in the 19th Century by people who ...

A red kite found with a damaged wing and head trauma is "doing really well", a wildlife charity has said. A member of the public found the bird of prey at a roadside in Marden, Kent, after it was ...

EVER wondered what birds of prey are getting up to when they fly off over the horizon? Wonder no more, thanks to Blogging Birds, a website that generates blog posts on behalf of four red kites in ...

Almost half of UK households regularly feed wild birds, but would you invite a raptor to dine in your garden? In Elizabethan times, the distinctive silhouette of the majestic Red Kite (Milvus milvus) ...

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More than 120 British-born red kite chicks have been released in south-west Spain A British red kite emerges from an aviary in the remote hills of western Spain and takes flight. At six months old, ...

Nearly four decades ago, red kites were extinct in England and Scotland with just a few pairs left in Wales. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, red kite chicks from Spain and Sweden were released in ...