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6 sept. 2023 · News. LIFE EUROKITE (LIFE18 NAT/AT/000048) cross-border protection of the Red Kite in Europe by reducing human-caused mortality. The red kite breeds exclusively in Europe and is endangered due to illegal persecution. Within LIFE EUROKITE, we aim to get to the bottom of the anthropogenic mortality reasons using telemetry and work to prevent them.
Distinctive large, graceful raptor with a fairly long, forked, rusty-orange tail. Flies with easy languid wingbeats and lazy glides, circling gracefully over fields and roadsides. Can be confused with Black Kite; note overall more reddish coloration, paler face, larger white patches on the underwings, and more deeply forked tail. Inhabits varied semiopen habitats, from woodland to farmland and ...
Red Kites prefer to breed in milder parts of western Europe, across France, Germany, Belgium, Switzerland, and the UK. Birds further north and east are more likely to migrate. The European population consists of around 95% of the global Red Kite population, with around half living in Germany. Close up of a Red Kite in flight over a meadow.
Red kites have a rusty reddish-brown body with a deeply forked tail. Their head is pale grey and patterned with dark streaks, and they have a yellow beak with a dark hook and pale, striking eyes. Their angular wings span 185cm. On the upper side they are red-brown at the shoulders with darker tips and edges, while underneath there are ...
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The red kite is a magnificent graceful bird of prey, it is unmistakable with its reddish-brown body, angled wings, deeply forked tail and a wingspan upto 2m
Previously, Red Kite was listed as Near Threatened because of a suspected moderately rapid population decline, owing mostly to poisoning from pesticides and persecution, and changes in land-use amongst other threats. However, these declines have been more than compensated by increases in the majority of countries within its range, at a rate that means that declines over the past three ...
