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

A trial reintroduction of red kites to both England and Scotland used birds mainly brought from Spain for the English scheme, and from Sweden for the Scottish releases.

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

The red kite has been under pressure in south Down since its reintroduction in the years between 2008 and 2010. Three birds have been shot, a further 12 have been poisoned and 12 more have been ...

A pair of Red Kites have raised a juvenile bird at a site in Derbyshire, the first in the county since 1863. The bird of prey, which fledged in the grounds of Kedleston Hall, Derbyshire, was ...

David Lindo, the broadcaster also known as “The Urban Birder”, is asking Britons to pick their favourite bird from a shortlist of 10 – including red kites, kingfishers and, of course, robin ...

Red Kites from Britain are being flown to Spain to help improve population numbers there. Experts will send 30 of the reddish-brown birds of prey to Spain because they are under threat from ...

A red kite, or Milvus, a medium-sized bird of prey that is rare in Turkish, was spotted in Istanbul. The bird from the Accipitridae family, also known as the Hawk or Vulture family, ...

Millions of Brits admit they’re bird brains when it comes to our feathered friends - with over half unable to identify a SPARROW. More than a quarter think penne is a bird rather than a type of ...

Analysis also discovered that the Welsh Red Kite population has remain “genetically homogenous”. This was a slight surprise, given the 18-fold expansion in the UK population in just 30 years.

Grahame Madge from the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds said: ‘The red kite is a scavenger, not a hunter, and the birds will gather to feed on carrion, mainly dead rabbits, ...

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.