That also happens, but it’s worth remembering that a kite is a raptor with sharp talons and a wingspan of up to 1.5 metres. It reminds me of gulls fighting tourists for ice-creams on seaside piers. The suspicion is that people are feeding them so that they can get close-up pictures, and that this behaviour has sparked a free-for-all. There have also been local reports of stolen sausage rolls and hot cross buns, and even steaks lifted off barbecues.
That’s quite a Henley-on-Thames story, if you don’t mind me saying. Ouch! And local resident Anna Howell was eating a salad in her back garden when a kite swooped down and helped itself to a bit of smoked mackerel.
Only recently, a child in a pram suffered nasty cuts after a kite snatched a custard cream from his hand. Home of the regatta, and that thing where they count all the swans? The very same.īut why? Are these birds avenging something? Mostly they’re scavenging something. Where is this happening? In the remote desert wastes of some faraway land? No, in Henley-on-Thames. We’re talking about the red kite – a bird of prey from the same family as buzzards and harriers – attacking people. Spreading and could soon be at a place near you.Appearance: From above, as if out of nowhere.Īre people getting tangled up in the strings, or what? Kite as in bird, not as in kite. Is being persecuted and illegally poisoned, but the population is increasing and Sadly, even today, despite its special protection status, this elegant bird Of the conservation programme has been to reintroduce young birds in to several Outstanding conservation effort of several conservation bodies. When just one pair were successfully breeding in Mid-Wales, owing to the The Red Kite has recovered from the brink of extinction around the 1930s, Widely in the autumn and then return in the spring. Breeding Startsīritish Red Kites are mainly sedentary though juvenile birds disperse The young are independent about 80 days from hatching. Both adults feed the young birds once their first feathers haveĭeveloped. The female does most of the incubating and brooding, and the male brings herįood.
The nest is constructed from twigs and mud,Īnd usually decorated with rubbish including rags and polythene bags. Nest is usually in a tall tree and is built by the female from materialīrought to the site by the male. Red Kites are woodland birds of hilly areas with nearby open spaces. In urban areas they will scavenge at refuse tips and also visit gardens where Live prey, such as birds, small mammals and invertebrates like earthworms, byĭiving from the air or dropping on to the prey from a perch. The diet is chiefly carrion, but they will also kill Your browser does not support the audio element. Site Map Album Info Quiz Shop Links About Bird Guide Barn Owl Blackbird Blackcap Black-headed Gull Black Redstart Blue Tit Brambling Bullfinch Buzzard Carrion Crow Chaffinch Chiffchaff Coal Tit Collared Dove Common Gull Coot Crested Tit Crossbill Cuckoo Dunnock Feral Pigeon Fieldfare Garden Warbler Goldcrest Goldfinch Goshawk Great Black-backed Gull Great Spotted Woodpecker Great Tit Greenfinch Green Woodpecker Grey Heron Grey Partridge Grey Wagtail Hawfinch Herring Gull Hoopoe House Martin House Sparrow Jackdaw Jay Kestrel Kingfisher Lapwing Lesser Black-backed Gull Lesser Spotted Woodpecker Lesser Whitethroat Linnet Little Owl Long-eared Owl Long-tailed Tit Magpie Mallard Marsh Tit Meadow Pipit Mistle Thrush Moorhen Nightingale Nuthatch Peregrine Pheasant Pied Flycatcher Pied Wagtail Quail Raven Red Kite Red-legged Partridge Redpoll Redstart Redwing Reed Bunting Ring-necked Parakeet Robin Rook Sand Martin Serin Short-eared Owl Siskin Skylark Song Thrush Sparrowhawk Spotted Flycatcher Starling Stock Dove Stonechat Swallow Swift Tawny Owl Treecreeper Tree Sparrow Turtle Dove Waxwing Whinchat Whitethroat Willow Tit Willow Warbler Wood Pigeon Wren Yellow Wagtail Yellowhammer
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