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 ...

Red kite chicks head for Spain as UK returns favour for reintroduction scheme Spain provided the birds that have help restore the once-vanished species to English skies.

He started coaching because he loved the job and wanted to work with young people.” Kite was head football coach and physical-education teacher at Colonial High from 1959 to 1971.

Before Red Kite, he was head of corporate development at Varomet Ltd, which was formed to buy parts of Enron's metals and mining assets.

A project to bring red kites back to UK skies is now sending chicks to help conservation efforts in Spain, which supplied birds for the highly successful reintroduction scheme.