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Original file of letters, notes, drafts, licences and reports, including guidelines for observers, 1984 and 1986; maps of watchers' areas, 1989-1993; papers for CCW/RSPB meetings, particularly re. differences of opinion re. egg and chick manipulation, 1992-1993; the end of CCW and RSPB funding for full monitoring of kite nests now the population had reached 100 breeding pairs, 1994; annual licences from CCW to Peter Davis under the Wildlife & Countryside Act 1981 (as amended) s.16(1) to examine red kite nests, 2002-2004, 2006-2011; and Peter Davis's annual reports of breeding success of nests the Nebo - Ffos-y-ffin - Felinfach area, co. Card., 2007-2008, 2010-2011.

Original file comprising draft and typescript of P. E. Davis & J. E. Davis, 'The food of the red kite in Wales', drawing on files E 1 and E 11, with comments and correspondence relating to its publication in the British Trust for Ornithology's 'British Birds', March-June 1980.

Original file of analyses of kite pellets and remains of prey, and descriptions of kite feeding behaviours.

Original file of reports and observations for 1997 and related papers, including details of 'eggers' from Portsmouth who robbed kites' nests at Crai, and M.L., who knows the location of a new kite's nest at Ystradfellte.

Original file of reports and observations for 1996 and related papers, including a set of maps confiscated from an 'egger'.

Original file of reports and observations for 1995 and related papers.

Original file of reports and observations for 1994 and related papers.

Original file of reports of sightings and observations for 1992-1993 and related papers.

Original file of reports of sightings and observations for 1989-1991 and related papers, 1989-1991, and a note of Tony Cross's extracts from the 1991-1992 diaries of De Cruse (sent to prison for egg thefts), 2002. Also a laminated map of the Ceredigion kite watchers' and Forestry Commission rangers' areas and contact details.

Original file of reports of sightings and observations for 1985-1988 and related papers.

Original file of reports of sightings and observations for 1979-1984 and related papers, including discussion of M. J. Dawson's book 'The red kite' (1983), which gives grid references of current and historical kite nests.

Original file of reports and observations for 1999 and related papers.

Original file of reports and observations for 1998 and related papers, including a report of a kite egg taken from a nest in the Elan Valley in 1997, recovered from Jan Frederick Ross of Tottington, co. Lancs.

Original file of reports of sightings and observations for 1974-1978 and related papers.

Original file of Kite Committee and related papers, including a copy of I. Newton, 'Reintroduction and its relation to the management of raptor populations', read to a conference in the USA, Nov. 1985.

Original file of Peter Davis's copies of Kite Committee papers, including minutes of the West Wales Field Society, 1950; annual reports on the kite's status and nesting season, 1950-1970; notes on, minutes of and reports to Kite Committee meetings, 1959-1966. Several of the papers, containing locations of nests then in use, are marked confidential.

Original file of agendas, minutes and other papers of the pre-1971 and post-1971 Kite Committees. The pre-1971 papers are very incomplete.