The red kite (Milvus milvus) is a bird of prey in the family Accipitridae, which also includes many other diurnal raptors such as eagles, buzzards, and harriers.

This magnificently graceful bird of prey is unmistakable with its reddish-brown body, angled wings and deeply forked tail. It was saved from national extinction by one of the world's longest-running protection programmes.

Red kites are a large bird of prey, with a wingspan of nearly 2m, and the females can be up to 5% bigger than the males. You can tell them apart from their fellow birds of prey by their glorious reddish-brown body and grey head.

The red kite is a large bird of prey with angled, red wings that are tipped with black and have white patches underneath in the 'hand'. It has a long, reddish-brown, forked tail.

The Red kite (Milvus milvus) is a medium-large bird of prey in the family Accipitridae, which also includes many other diurnal raptors such as eagles, buzzards, and harriers.

The Red Kite is a striking raptor with distinctive rusty-red plumage, a deeply forked tail, and long, fingered wings. Its head is pale grey with a yellow, hooked beak, piercing yellow eyes, and legs.

Red Kites: Learn about their graceful flight, distinctive markings, and the efforts to protect this iconic bird of prey.

The Red Kite is endemic to the Western Palearctic region. It is a rare species which is resident in the milder parts of its range, however, birds from northern and central Europe winter further …

Distinctive large, graceful raptor with a fairly long, forked, rusty-orange tail. Flies with easy languid wingbeats and lazy glides, circling gracefully over fields and roadsides. Can be confused with Black Kite; note overall more reddish coloration, paler face, larger white patches on the underwings, and more deeply forked tail.

Strikingly coloured, the rich reddish-brown tones of the bird’s plumage shine in good light, contrasting with white and dark brown in the wings, and the long forked tail is very evident. In some areas, such as mid-Wales, farms put out food for this carrion-eating raptor and large concentrations have become a wildlife tourist attraction.