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Original file comprising draft and typescript of P. E. Davis & J. E. Davis, 'The food of the red kite in Wales', drawing on files E 1 and E 11, with comments and correspondence relating to its publication in the British Trust for Ornithology's 'British Birds', March-June 1980.

Original file of analyses of kite pellets and remains of prey, and descriptions of kite feeding behaviours.

Original file of reports and observations for 1997 and related papers, including details of 'eggers' from Portsmouth who robbed kites' nests at Crai, and M.L., who knows the location of a new kite's nest at Ystradfellte.

Original file of reports and observations for 1996 and related papers, including a set of maps confiscated from an 'egger'.

Original file of reports and observations for 1995 and related papers.

Original file of reports and observations for 1994 and related papers.

Original file of reports of sightings and observations for 1992-1993 and related papers.

Original file of reports of sightings and observations for 1989-1991 and related papers, 1989-1991, and a note of Tony Cross's extracts from the 1991-1992 diaries of De Cruse (sent to prison for egg thefts), 2002. Also a laminated map of the Ceredigion kite watchers' and Forestry Commission rangers' areas and contact details.

Original file of reports of sightings and observations for 1985-1988 and related papers.

Original file of reports of sightings and observations for 1979-1984 and related papers, including discussion of M. J. Dawson's book 'The red kite' (1983), which gives grid references of current and historical kite nests.

Original file of reports and observations for 1999 and related papers.

Original file of reports and observations for 1998 and related papers, including a report of a kite egg taken from a nest in the Elan Valley in 1997, recovered from Jan Frederick Ross of Tottington, co. Lancs.

Original file of reports of sightings and observations for 1974-1978 and related papers.

Original file of Kite Committee and related papers, including a copy of I. Newton, 'Reintroduction and its relation to the management of raptor populations', read to a conference in the USA, Nov. 1985.

Original file of Peter Davis's copies of Kite Committee papers, including minutes of the West Wales Field Society, 1950; annual reports on the kite's status and nesting season, 1950-1970; notes on, minutes of and reports to Kite Committee meetings, 1959-1966. Several of the papers, containing locations of nests then in use, are marked confidential.

Original file of agendas, minutes and other papers of the pre-1971 and post-1971 Kite Committees. The pre-1971 papers are very incomplete.

Original file of William Condry's copies of Kite Committee papers, including reports and minutes of the West Wales Field Society, 1949-1950; annual reports on the kite's status and nesting season, 1950-1955; notes on, minutes of and reports to Kite Committee meetings, 1958-1971 and 1974; a draft report on the desertion of two kite nests after filming operations by the RSPB film unit, 1970. Several of the papers, containing locations of nests then in use, are marked confidential.

Original file of newsletters for distribution 'to landowners and others involved in kite protection', no's 1-7 (1978-1984), 1985-1986 and 1990 (including 1987-89), produced by Roger Lovegrove.

Original file comprising a copy of the 'The kite in Wales, 1970', the final issue of the annual report produced by Col Morrey Salmon for the old kite group, with an epilogue by Capt. Vaughan, and annual breeding season reports produced by Peter Davis, 1971-1989, including several typescripts, notes and revisions. The annual report to the Kite Committee comprised two sections: a single page confidential 'The kite (M.milvus) in Wales, <year>', which could be used publically once the breeding season was over, and a strictly confidential nest-by-nest 'Red kite breeding report for <year>'.