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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>'.

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 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 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.

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.

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

Original file of Welsh Kite Trust/Welsh Kite Watchers' Committee annual meeting agendas, minutes and related papers. Includes a copy of the Wales Raptor Study Group report, 2004; and heads of agreement (unsigned) between the Golden Eagle Trust of Ireland and the Welsh Kite Trust for the supply of 265 young Welsh red kites over five years for release in Co. Down and Co. Wicklow, 2007.

Original file of relating to the formation of the Welsh Kite Trust, 1995-1996, and administration, including correspondence, drafts of documents, minutes of trustees' meetings, annual reports, Charity Commission publications, copies of 'Boda wennol: the newsletter of the Welsh Kite Trust'. Includes a letter to R.S. Thomas asking him to be a patron of the new trust, and his reply declining the offer, Jan. 1997.

Original file of copies of "Boda wennol : cylchlythyr Ymddiriedolaeth Barcudiaid Cymru=the newsletter of the Welsh Kite Trust", no's 1-28 (Spring 1997-Autumn 2013).

Original file of relating the Welsh Kite Trust, including correspondence, minutes of trustees' meetings, annual reports, papers relating to a proposal to reintroduce red kites to Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, 2006, drafts of Cross & Davis, 'The red kites of Wales', responses to a proposed publication 'Cri'r barcud coch' by four junior schools in the Builth area, 2003, and to a proposed Camddwr wind turbine development, 2004.

Original file of minutes of Welsh Kite Trust meetings and related papers, ending with Peter Davis's resignation as a trustee, effective Dec. 2011, and a note on the archive, Sept. 2016.

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.

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

Original file of notes of observations of tagged birds.

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.

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 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.