Police have launched an investigation after a red kite was found fatally poisoned in Co Down. A PSNI spokesperson said tests ...

Red Kites were reintroduced to Northern Ireland in 2008 after being extinct here for centuries.

Police have launched a wildlife crime investigation after tests confirmed a red kite found dead near Loughbrickland had been ...

Red Kites had long been relentlessly hunted by taxidermists, egg collectors and farmers who wrongly accused them of killing game by one of the world's longest-running wildlife protection programmes.

It's hard to believe now but these iconic and hugely popular birds were once almost extinct in Wales and the UK. Find out more about red kites, on the BBC Wales Nature & Outdoors website.

Farmers and land managers who continue to abuse countryside chemicals have been attacked by bird experts after a rare red kite was found poisoned in the Scottish countryside. Tests carried out by ...

Red kites are returning in numbers that naturalists could only have dreamed of 30 years ago. Dr Mike Pienkowski has chronicled the extraordinary success story of how they were brought back from the ...

May 30, 2024 at 2:18pm BST. A Red Kite, well-known throughout the Mournes, in Co Down, was so seriously injured in a shooting it had to be put to sleep by a vet.

One Christmas, keen to know whether the red kites would fly down to him and eat any food, Brian threw the carcass from his roast turkey out into the garden - and several of the magnificent birds ...

Photo of a red kite by Alan Shearman. The six reasons the trust gave not to feed the birds were: Feeding encourages red kites to become bolder than they naturally would.

Red kites are very easy to recognise. They're pretty much the largest bird in the London sky, and glide around without much flapping, as birds of prey generally do. They have distinctive fan ...