Beaky upstart

Unhurried in flight and with a sideline in stolen goods, the handsome red kite is the gentleman thief of the raptor world

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30-minute birder Amanda Tuke investigates the impact of feeding wild birds, and whether it’s a factor behind the decline of a woodland specialist

POPULATION TRENDS

The rise and rise of raptor species has been a major success of the past half century, but it may well have been the downfall of the common kestrel

Threatened with extinction in the 1960s, the mighty peregrine–with its astonishing speed and super strength–has staged such a remarkable comeback that its now more successful than it was in the Middle Ages