The once near-extinct birds of prey are being flown abroad to help rescue dwindling Spanish populations.
In the 1990s, red kites in Spain were doing well in comparison to the UK, where years of human persecution, including egg collecting, poisoning and shooting, had pushed the bird to near extinction.
The juveniles are only a few weeks old, but already have most of their feathers and can feed independently.The red kite is one of Britain's largest birds of prey, known for its reddish-brown body, long wings, forked tail and distinctive "mewing" calls. "You need to find 90 to 100 birds to create a sustainable population in a given area," he said. "That should be sufficient to create a new breeding nucleus of the birds."
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