The lovely red kite
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The lovely red kite Here I have a blog about UK wildlife, but I will follow up to make it relevant to my HK readers.....with a blog tomorrow on the black kite we have in Hong KOng.
so we start with some pics of The lovely red kite taken in Surrey UK.
This large bird has a reddish-brown body, angled wings and deeply forked tail. This tail is what I use to try and differentiate it from the buzzards. Although looking very fierce it is an opportunistic scavenger, but may also take small mammals. This one below is in a steep dive protecting its nest from other raptors.
This bird has been the subject of a very successful conservation programme as it was saved from national extinction by one of the world's longest-running protection programmes. It has now been successfully re-introduced to England and Scotland.
PHOTO KEY Red Kite. S/H
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the photos below are for comparison to our black-eared kite that we have in Hong KOng.
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