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Published: 2010-10-09 20:47:45 +0000 UTC; Views: 1070; Favourites: 64; Downloads: 0
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A possible entrant for `The X Factor`?...This Red Kite is 4 months old(there were 2 in the mews),i saw them when they were chicks on the photography day Dawn and i did in early July...just little bundles of fluff,now look at em!!
The Red Kite is a huge success story in the UK,they were wrongly hunted to near extinction but thanks to a re-introduction program and places like Gigrin Farm,in Wales [link] are spreading back into their old haunts.
Taken at Stonham Barns.[link]
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Your work has been featured as one of #Bird-Photography 's and/or #Birds-Club 's top submissions for the month of October. You can find the article which also contains other beautiful bird art here: [link]
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Thank you so much Melissa 
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This awesome capture is now featured in my Group! Some others, I would like to add, too, if that's okay. ^^
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Thank you so much
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^^ Welcome, and awesome, because I think I've featured you a whole lot, too! 
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He is a cute,isnt he...but bloody loud!
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Thanks Cy,these are such georgeous birds,i am looking forward to seeing my first one round here,i have seen them in the Chilterns,but i am told we now have them too
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Why were they hunted so heavily? (Yes, I can look this up on my own, but I'd prefer to be lazy and let you tell me
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Under Tudor "vermin laws" many creatures were seen as competitors for the produce of the countryside and bounties were paid by the parish for their carcasses. By the 20th century the breeding population had become restricted to a handful of pairs in Wales, but recently the Welsh population has been supplemented by re-introductions in England and Scotland. In 2004, from 375 occupied territories identified at least 216 pairs were thought to have hatched eggs and 200 pairs reared at least 286 young.
In 1989 six Swedish birds were released at a site in north Scotland and four Swedish and one Welsh bird in Buckinghamshire. Altogether, 93 birds of Swedish and Spanish origin were released at each of the sites. In the second stage of reintroduction in 1995 and 1996, further birds were brought over from Germany to populate the areas of Dumfries and Galloway, and the Derwent Valley in North East England.
The reintroductions in The Chilterns have been a particular success. Between 1989 and 1993 90 birds were released in the Chilterns Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and by 2002, 139 pairs were breeding in the area. A sighting of the first Red Kite to be seen in London for 150 years was reported in The Independent newspaper in January 2006 and in June of that year, the UK-based Northern Kites Project reported that kites had bred in the Derwent Valley in and around Rowlands Gill, Tyne and Wear for the first time since the re-introduction.
Is that the sort of thing you meant mate
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Neat. I wonder why King James hated them so damn much.
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Some numpty probably thought they were snatching babies or something....
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O.O
Baby snatching birds...
That's some scary shit.
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People are idiots at times.. 
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Yeah, you say that. Wait until a bird snatches your ass up! O.O
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It would have to be fcn BIG bird 
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