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Southern romance for bird of prey One of the UK's rarest birds of prey has spread her wings and travelled south to find romance.
She is fitted with a tiny radio transmitter, and staff at the Northern Kites project tracked her to a nest in Harrogate, North Yorkshire. There, she paired up with a male from a similar project in Yorkshire, and they are now raising two chicks. Scarlet was named by schoolchildren in Gateshead as part of the Northern Kites adopt-a-kite project. News of Scarlet's progress and photographs of her at the nest have been passed on to the youngsters. Northern Kites is the final phase of a national project launched in the late 1980s to return kites to the skies of Britain. The birds were formerly widespread and common in the UK, but human persecution led to their extinction in England and Scotland in the mid to late-1800s. Colonies now exist in the Rockingham Forest area of the Midlands, in Central Scotland and Dumfries and Galloway. 26.08.06 |
Scarlet,
a two-year-old red kite, is one of 94 released into
Gateshead's Derwent Valley since 2004.