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Welsh Red Kite Archive Ffeil = File
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H. Morrey Salmon kite file,

Correspondence relating to stuffed kites and eggs in museum collections, 1944-1957; annual nest records, 1902-1932, extracted from Dr J. H. Salter's manuscript notebook (now NLW MS 14454B) by William Condry, 1951; and notes and extracts re. Welsh kites, including by William Condry, J. A. Walpole-Bond, E. Cambridge Phillips, C. H. Gowland, the British Ornithologists' Club, the RSPB; copies of correspondence re. eggs, 1932-1947; general British references from published books and articles, 1903-1939; and British county records from published books and articles, 1799-1949. Most of the typed pages are marked 'Wales/278'.

Salmon, H. Morrey (Harry Morrey), 1892-1985

William Condry kite correspondence,

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

Kite Committee papers,

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.

J. H. Salter diaries,

Typescript and manuscript extracts relating to red kites from J. H. Salter's natural history diaries, 1891-1941, and published notes, 1893-1904.

Salter, J. H. (John Henry), 1862-1942

David Sansbury kite file,

Original file of D. G. Sansbury of Is-y-coed, Tal-y-bont, co. Card., including annual reports on the kite's status and nesting season, 1950-1955; correspondence relating to sightings, 1951-1956; Kite Committee papers, 1950-1953; abridged translations of two German articles on the breeding habits of kites in Brandenburg, 1934, and Vogelsberg, Hesse, 1947-1950; and a file including a [David Sansbury?] kite watcher's diary, June 1949-Dec. 1952 (8 pp.), a letter of introduction for David Sansbury from H. R. H. Vaughan, 1951; a map of the kite in co. Card.; and William Condry, 'Some preliminary notes on the natural history of the red kite in Wales' (7 pp.), Easter 1950.

Sansbury, David, fl. 1950-1956

William Condry kite file,

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

Kite Committee papers,

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

Kite watchers,

Original bundle of correspondence labelled "Kite watchers, 1965 & 1966", relating to the voluntary kite watching operation, Easter 1965 and 1966.

Kite and other licences,

Original file mainly comprising correspondence and other papers relating to licences to visit nests, take and handle eggs, take blood and other samples etc. for scientific purposes. Also extracts from Barry Sheavills's notebooks relating to the theft of eggs in Wales, 1986-1993.

BTO Ornithological Atlas,

Original file of papers relating to the British Trust for Ornithology Ornithological Atlas, mainly relating to the presentation of the breeding distribution of rarer breeding species in Wales, including kite, hen harrier, peregrine, chough, little tern, gossander and dotterel. Includes "Personally I would feel happier if the system did not show precisely the number of 10 km. squares with [kite] breeding records, mainly because this betrays the preponderance of Cardiganshire records compared with Carmarthenshire ones ... and is therefore against our agreed policy of keeping quiet about the strength of the Cardiganshire population" (letter from Peter Davis to Col Salmon, Feb. 1970) (see also B 4).

H. Morrey Salmon, 'A history of the kite Milnus milnus (L.) in Wales',

H. Morrey Salmon, 'A history of the kite Milnus milnus (L.) in Wales', 1971, in four parts: (I), Narrative and 1977 addenda; (II) Tabulated ecological area records by decades, 1891-1970, with maps; (III) Ecological area records; and (IV) Appendices: (i) Membership of the 'Kite Group', 1958-1970, and dates of meetings, (ii) Map locations of places named, (iii) Select bibliography, and (iv) Reports of the Kite Committee, 1949-1957, and of the 'Kite Group', 1958-1970. The 1977 addenda was compiled by the author from the abstracts of kite records made by Peter Davis (A 7, below) from the papers of Dorothy Raikes (d. 1976), transferred by her trustees to the Nature Conservancy Council.
Copy no. 2 (Dup.).

Salmon, H. Morrey (Harry Morrey), 1892-1985

Dorothy Raikes kite file,

Original file of abstracts of kite observations, 1929-1949, from the papers of Dorothy Taunton Raikes of Bwlch, co. Brec., made after her death by Peter Davis, 1976 (Nature Conservancy Council copy). Also correspondence between Morrey Salmon and Peter Davis, 1976-1977, mainly relating to Salmon's 1977 addenda to his 1971 'A history of the kite' (A 6 above).

Correspondence re. publications,

Original file of letters to Peter Davis and copy replies, including re. proposals for a monograph on kites for T. & A.D. Poyser, 1989-1994, Shire Publications, 1989, Christopher Helm, 1990-1991, and George Philip, 1991; Roger Lovegrove's kite monograph, 1990; 'New atlas of breeding birds in Britain and Ireland', 1991; and Mike Pienkowski's book on the reintroduction of the kite, 1994-1997. Also drafts of Peter Davis kite papers, including the kite chapter for G. Williams, 'BoW' [published as 'Birds in Wales'], 1993; and 'The red kite in Wales: setting the record straight' for 'British Birds', 1993; 'Kite and land use in Wales, report to the Forestry Commission, 1993; 'The red kite and Hafod', [c.1994]; and the kite article for the BTO Atlas of Migration, 1999-2002.

C. H. Wells diary,

Welsh kite, peregrine, raven, buzzard and merlin records extracted from the diaries of C. H. Wells, a suspected egg-collector, 1910-1911 and 1925-1955, made available by courtesy of Eric Bartlett, the Brecon bird recorder, 1979, with covering correspondence, 1978-1979.

Kite food and feeding habits,

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.

Red kite : miscellaneous historical references, papers etc., Wales,

Original file of e-mails, extracts, letters, lists, memoranda, drafts and photocopies of articles etc., including the death of Colonel H. Morrey Salmon, 1985; an English translation of the section on red kites from W. Miall Jones's unpublished manuscript 'Adar gogledd Ceredigion', c.1944; list of letters re. kites in the Condry correspondence file, 1948-1963, and the 'dead' RSPB kite file, 1958-1968 (now C 1-3 below); a draft of Peter Davis's obituary for R. S. Thomas (1913-2000); an obituary to Frances Evans, who started a kite feeding station at Tyndomen, Tregaron (Cambrian News, 19 March 2009); and extracts from papers at NLW and the Carm. CRO.

Egg and chick manipulation,

Original file of reports, memoranda and notes relating to the taking, swapping, rescuing and fostering eggs and chicks, including annual reports by Peter Davis, 1987-1988, Dr Nick Fox of Carmarthen, a keeper and breeder of raptors, 1987-1990, and Peter Walter Davies, 1989-1993.

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