Red kite in Wales breeding tables, 1946-1999,
- E 50.
- Ffeil = File
- [c.2000].
Rhan oWelsh Red Kite Archive
Annual lists of known nests in Wales, grid references, clutch sizes, successes and causes of failure, 1946-1999, compiled by Peter Davis.
Red kite in Wales breeding tables, 1946-1999,
Rhan oWelsh Red Kite Archive
Annual lists of known nests in Wales, grid references, clutch sizes, successes and causes of failure, 1946-1999, compiled by Peter Davis.
William Condry kite correspondence,
Rhan oWelsh Red Kite Archive
Original file of letters to William Condry, mainly with other naturalists and ornithologists, members of the Kite Committee and representatives of other societies. Includes reports of sightings; also the arrival of grey squirrels at Rhandirmwyn, co. Carm., 1949; a printed history and subscription list of the "Farmers' Defence Committee" against the Forestry Commission's proposed compulsory purchase of 20,000 acres in the Upper Tywi valley, 1949-1952; a list of known egg collectors, 1951; and the national campaign to criminalise the gin-trap, 1952.
Condry, William, 1918-1998
Rhan oWelsh Red Kite Archive
Original file of abstracts of kite observations from county histories, churchwardens' accounts, natural histories, diaries etc., typescript extracts from publications (many including references Wales/278, Spain/278 etc.), and memoranda and letters.
Condry, William, 1918-1998
Historical references outside Wales,
Rhan oWelsh Red Kite Archive
Original file of reports and historical references to kites outside Wales, mainly comprising photocopies from county faunas and bird books, for Peter Davis's projected history of the kite in Britain. The photocopies are from books dated 1834 (Robert Mudie, 'The feathered tribes of the British Isles') to 1989 (Lorand & Atkin, 'The birds of Lincolnshire and South Humberside').
Rhan oWelsh Red Kite Archive
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.
Rhan oWelsh Red Kite Archive
Original file of agendas, minutes and other papers of the pre-1971 and post-1971 Kite Committees. The pre-1971 papers are very incomplete.
Rhan oWelsh Red Kite Archive
Original file of yearly breeding season reports, 1990-1999, many with the confidential section 2 containing the locations and success of each known breeding pair. Peter Davis compiled the report to the Kite Committe at the end of the breeding season, although there is frequently a revised report for the record in the light of further information. Also notes, drafts and circulation lists. Also site lists for 2000 and 2003, and Peter Davis's Welsh Kite Watchers Group nest record sheets for nests in the Nebo - Ffos-y-ffin - Felinfach area, co. Card., 2004.
Rhan oWelsh Red Kite Archive
Original file of letters, memoranda, papers and publications relating to the Welsh Office / Development Board for Rural Wales / RSPB / Welsh Tourist Board initiative to develop the Spotting the Red Kite (the Red Kite Trail) project, the name being changed c.Feb. 1994 to Red Kite Country. A letter in the general correspondence file for 1990-2011 (E 32 below) mentions that the initiative expired in 1997.
Rhan oWelsh Red Kite Archive
Original bundle of correspondence labelled "Kite watchers, 1965 & 1966", relating to the voluntary kite watching operation, Easter 1965 and 1966.
Rhan oWelsh Red Kite Archive
"Three years ago the Countryside Council for Wales decided it could no longer afford to contribute towards the cost of annual monitoring of the Welsh kite population, and in 1995 the RSPB followed suit ... So we set up the WKT in an attempt to replace the funding which was no longer available from CCW and RSPB, for monitoring, protection, research, and public education about kites in Wales" (Peter Davis letter to R. S. Thomas, Jan. 1997). Peter Davis was a trustee of the Welsh Kite Trust, 1996-2012.
Rhan oWelsh Red Kite Archive
Original file of reports of and notes on ringed or tagged dead kites, including the recovery of a ringed female (HT27208, ringed June 1988, found dead May 2012), probably the oldest recorded Welsh kite, displacing HW08418, a male that died at Tregaron in March 1992, a month younger than this new bird, 2012; and the recovery of HT25680, a male ringed at Talsarn, June 1990, found dead Aber-arth, at 23.5 years the third oldest kite known by ringing, Jan. 2014.
Rhan oWelsh Red Kite Archive
Original file of correspondence, memoranda, incident reports, statements, press cuttings etc., including relating to kite bounty payments, 1969-1989, blacklists of persons with prosecutions and suspected eggers, 1972-1974, annual and special protection schemes, including Abergwesyn kite watch logs and reports, 1977-1979, incidents of disturbed birds and robbed nests, publicity, and prosecutions and attempted prosecutions, including against Ian Godfrey Huggard for the possession of kite eggs, 1972-1973, Michael Dawson of Brighton and Andrew Rychlinski of Brighton for wilfully disturbing kites, 1978, and Elgan Jones for poisoning, 1990.
Rhan oWelsh Red Kite Archive
Original file of letters and copy replies with conservation officers, nest watchers, academics and members of the public. Includes letters from Lelie Brown of Karen, Kenya, about his book 'British birds of prey' (New Naturalist Library no. 60, 1976), 1974-1975; D. A. Orton of Alverchurch watcher's diary and report to RSPB Newtown on a peregrine's nest 'on DG Rocks', 1975; and a letter from Roger Lovegrove, RSPB Wales Officer, that "should you have any reasonably decent corpse in your hands in the next couple of years" it would be a great favour if it could be frozen and lent to Charles Tunnicliffe, "as he has a great ambition to add Red Kite to this collection" of measured drawings of British birds, 1975.
Rhan oWelsh Red Kite Archive
Original file of notes of observations of tagged birds.
Kite translocation discussions,
Rhan oWelsh Red Kite Archive
Original file of Kite Project Team papers relating to the proposed re-introduction of kites into England and Scotland.
Kite research using remote surveillance,
Rhan oWelsh Red Kite Archive
Original file from an RSPB folder (discarded) entitled "K. Smith - Radio eggs, cameras & videos", comprising K. W. Smith et al's annual reports, 1987-1992, on remote surveillance, including the use of false eggs sensative to light, temperature and turning, and related papers.
Drafts of 'The red kite in Wales',
Rhan oWelsh Red Kite Archive
Drafts of Peter Davis's chapter 'The red kite in Wales', originally intended for 'The birds of Wales'; published in 'WBR 89'.
Rhan oWelsh Red Kite Archive
Original file from a folder (discarded) entitled "Kites vs environment project 1992-3", comprising correspondence and notes relating to land use, including forestry and landfill, 1991-1993; a copy of I. Newton, D. Moss & P. E. Davis, 'Red kites and land-use in Wales' (Institute of Terrestrial Ecology report, June 1993); and a draft of P. E. Davis, I. Newton & D. Moss, 'Distribution and breeding of red kites Milvus milvus in relation to afforestation and other land use in Wales', [1994?].
Kite distribution reports (5),
Rhan oWelsh Red Kite Archive
Original file of reports of sightings and observations for 1992-1993 and related papers.
Kite distribution reports (6),
Rhan oWelsh Red Kite Archive
Original file of reports and observations for 1994 and related papers.