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Red kite
Efforts to protect the red kite from extinction started over 100 years ago, making it the longest-running conservation project in history.
The RSPB got involved in 1905, two years after the first Kite Committee was set up in a desperate attempt to save the remaining three to four British pairs which were restricted to central Wales.
There are now several red kite populations in Britain, but only the Welsh birds are truly native. In the late 1980s and 1990s kites from Sweden and Spain were introduced to various sites in England and Scotland and are now breeding successfully.
There are now over 400 red kite pairs in mid Wales.
Red kites have a chestnut-red body and a long, red, forked tail. When in flight you can see white patches on the underside of the wings.
Look out for red kites around areas of deciduous woodland next to farmland or grassland.
Numbers are increasing in mid Wales, and the feeding stations which have opened in the area are popular with tourists and birds alike.
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