#redkites — Public Fediverse posts

Documentaries show that predators such as #barnowls, #eagleowls, #tawnyowls, #kestrels, #commonbuzzards, #redkites, #foxes can be secondarily poisoned if they eat poisoned #mice.Long-term monitoring of barn owls reveals widespread contamination with #rodenticides,while systematic monitoring is lacking in many countries.This is precisely where the agricultural and hunting lobbies intertwine:instead of promoting natural predators as allies,they defend poisoning strategies

https://wildbeimwild.com/en/owl-parents-as-a-team-not-as-predators/

Documentaries show that predators such as #barnowls, #eagleowls, #tawnyowls, #kestrels, #commonbuzzards, #redkites, #foxes can be secondarily poisoned if they eat poisoned #mice.Long-term monitoring of barn owls reveals widespread contamination with #rodenticides,while systematic monitoring is lacking in many countries.This is precisely where the agricultural and hunting lobbies intertwine:instead of promoting natural predators as allies,they defend poisoning strategies

https://wildbeimwild.com/en/owl-parents-as-a-team-not-as-predators/

💨 🦅 Every so often #RedKites die in collisions with #WindTurbines. A study funded by the SNSF shows when and where this happens and what might help.

Full article 👉 https://sohub.io/n7yf

💨 🦅 Every so often #RedKites die in collisions with #WindTurbines. A study funded by the SNSF shows when and where this happens and what might help.

Full article 👉 https://sohub.io/n7yf

I've just heard a #Cuckoo in the #garden. I was starting to think I'd imagined hearing one last year, but apparently not.

We've also recently been hearing a #Buzzard at home too, and have #RedKites nesting nearby.

If I can ever get a photo I will post it.

#Norfolk #Birds

As usual #RedKites were about; occasionally being moved on by corvids. Patterning is essentially the same across m/f but I've been told the notch in tail is often deeper on males. So 1st image - m? & 2nd f?- but tail is more spread on the 2nd image??
#UKbirds #birding #nature #wildlife

As usual #RedKites were about; occasionally being moved on by corvids. Patterning is essentially the same across m/f but I've been told the notch in tail is often deeper on males. So 1st image - m? & 2nd f?- but tail is more spread on the 2nd image??
#UKbirds #birding #nature #wildlife

Red kites have made a huge comeback in some parts of Corsica. Several soar above my parents' house daily. What a sight!
Corsica, France.

#Kites #Birds #BirdsOfPrey #RedKites #Corsica #France #Birding #Photography #BirdsInFlight #Wildlife #Nature #BirdPhotography #WildlifePhotography #NaturePhotography

Red kites have made a huge comeback in some parts of Corsica. Several soar above my parents' house daily. What a sight!
Corsica, France.

#Kites #Birds #BirdsOfPrey #RedKites #Corsica #France #Birding #Photography #BirdsInFlight #Wildlife #Nature #BirdPhotography #WildlifePhotography #NaturePhotography

I am still working on those skills but I have gotten better at photos of birds in flight. At least when it comes to larger birds...

#Birds #BaldEagles #NorthernHarriers #Kites #RedKites #Birding #BirdsInFlight #BirdPhotography #Birding #BirdsOfPrey #Nature #Wildlife #Photography #WildlifePhotography #NaturePhotography

I am still working on those skills but I have gotten better at photos of birds in flight. At least when it comes to larger birds...

#Birds #BaldEagles #NorthernHarriers #Kites #RedKites #Birding #BirdsInFlight #BirdPhotography #Birding #BirdsOfPrey #Nature #Wildlife #Photography #WildlifePhotography #NaturePhotography

I'd been wondering which of the neighbours had had a baby that could be heard cooing and squeaking outside every day when none of them have had one (to my knowledge). It turns out a colony of #RedKites have moved in and are now regularly soaring around overhead, and that's what they sound like.

Only relatively recently they were on the #endangered list in the UK, and here we are. Great to see and hear the results of a successful #conservation effort.

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/red-kite-bird-population-conservation-a4503016.html

#Birds #RSPB

I'd been wondering which of the neighbours had had a baby that could be heard cooing and squeaking outside every day when none of them have had one (to my knowledge). It turns out a colony of #RedKites have moved in and are now regularly soaring around overhead, and that's what they sound like.

Only relatively recently they were on the #endangered list in the UK, and here we are. Great to see and hear the results of a successful #conservation effort.

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/red-kite-bird-population-conservation-a4503016.html

#Birds #RSPB

Why elephants, otters and whales are nature’s secret weapons against climate breakdown | Matthew Gould | The Guardian
#ClimateCrisis
#CarbonStorage
#Elephants
#Whales
#SeaOtters
#Kelp
#Trees
#Phytoplankton
#Wildebeest
#Fires
#Reindeer
#WildHorses
#MuskOx
#Bison
#Conservation
#Pangolins
#Tigers
#RedKites
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/apr/19/elephants-otters-whales-nature-climate-breakdown-carbon-ecosystems

#Fly high, to touch a world of amazing possibilty. But things can get... fracticious up there, so be careful. Sometimes there's not much room in the wide open #sky. (1/2)

#RedKites seen along the #ThamesPath near #Reading

HTs #NaturePhotography #BirdWatching #Birds #photography #Wildlife

#RedKites over #BreconBeaconsNP
#Wales #Birds #Nature

We have both #blackkites and #redkites which perch on the house or surrounding trees. Numbers vary from two in the winter, anywhere up to about 15 in the spring and summer, when the fields are being cut for hay, or neighbouring farm has fresh intake of free range #chickens or #guineafowl. This #blackkite could often be seen flying around the house, on the look out for a tasty morsel.
#birds
#birdsofmastodon
#BlackKite
#wildlife
#photography

#RedKites #BreconBeaconsNP #Birds #Wales

#RedKites thriving in #England 30 years after #reintroduction | #Environment | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jul/20/red-kites-thriving-in-england-30-years-after-reintroduction

#UK #Ecology #Conservation #Animals #Birds #Wildlife