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Red Kite population 2000
by Nigel Snell, Southern England project co-ordinator.
The Chilterns, like almost everywhere else, had a wet spring. We feared the worst but our kites seemed to ignore it and we finished up with 94 successful pairs raising 202 chicks.
Our final number of pairs, successful and unsuccessful, was 113 plus three more that were probably productive but due to the nest site being on land where we could not gain access we could not establish a result. |
For several years now our population has grown rapidly but until this year it has not expanded far from the core area (where they were initially released). In 2000 we have had a nest in Wiltshire, one in Hampshire and one in the far north of Buckinghamshire together with infilling towards and possibly beyond Oxford.
We had 20 nests with one chick, 46 nests with two chicks, 25 nests with three chicks and 3 nests with four chicks. We sent twenty one of these chicks up to Yorkshire for release there. 114 were wing-tagged witha yellow tag on the left wing and a pink tag on the right wing.
Sadly this year for the first time we have had actual evidence of a nest being robbed when after its failure we found new spike marks up the tree. This nest was very visible from a public footpath but was successful for the previous two years.
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