Red Kite
The Red Kite, once a common bird throughout the UK, suffered greatly from the hands of man. Birds were shot and poisoned because it was thought that they killed sheep, lambs and carried disease.
Numbers got so low that in the 1930’s there were only 5 pairs left in the whole of Britain, in remote parts of Ceredigion and Carmarthenshire. With the instigation of legal protection, help from the RSPB and CCW along with the army guarding several nests, the population rose to 40 pairs in 1985. From then onwards the population virtually exploded and by 2005 the Welsh population was estimated at 500 pairs.
