The poisoning of a red kite, found dead near Loughbrickland, County Down, is being investigated by police. The bird of prey, ...

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

Red kites are a large bird of prey, with a wingspan of nearly 2m, and the females can be up to 5% bigger than the males. You can tell them apart from their fellow birds of prey by their glorious ...

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.

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

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 ...

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 ...

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.

The bird of prey was hunted close to extinction in the UK after previously being considered a threat to domestic pets and game birds. Hampshire Wildlife Trust said red kites are largely scavengers ...

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 ...