The Red Kite

Common Name: Red Kite

Scientific Name: Milvus milvus.

Description:
-Colour: tawny brown
- Height : long - about 60 cm.
-Beak :curved and long
-Feet : The feet have long sharp claws and are curved to enable it to seize its prey.

Reproduction : It mainly nests in trees. Incubation begins when it lays the first egg and it is for this reason that there is an age difference among the chicks. The rearing of the chicks can last up to 130 days.

Diet : The diet is varied and consists of prey, both live and dead, as well as rubbish.

Habitat : It lives in temperate and southern areas, but sometimes it prefers savannahs and ocean islands. It can survive in a wide variety of climates.

Migration: It is common. It nests and it is passing through. It can also be found in the towns or their immediate neighbourhood. This species act as road sweepers in the streets of London .

Conservation: protected species

Lifespan: 26 ans.

Call or song : It shouts, and perhaps this shout, which is similar to a whinny gives origin to Aesop's fable.