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Original file of William Condry's copies of Kite Committee papers, including reports and minutes of the West Wales Field Society, 1949-1950; annual reports on the kite's status and nesting season, 1950-1955; notes on, minutes of and reports to Kite Committee meetings, 1958-1971 and 1974; a draft report on the desertion of two kite nests after filming operations by the RSPB film unit, 1970. Several of the papers, containing locations of nests then in use, are marked confidential.

Original file of newsletters for distribution 'to landowners and others involved in kite protection', no's 1-7 (1978-1984), 1985-1986 and 1990 (including 1987-89), produced by Roger Lovegrove.

Original file comprising a copy of the 'The kite in Wales, 1970', the final issue of the annual report produced by Col Morrey Salmon for the old kite group, with an epilogue by Capt. Vaughan, and annual breeding season reports produced by Peter Davis, 1971-1989, including several typescripts, notes and revisions. The annual report to the Kite Committee comprised two sections: a single page confidential 'The kite (M.milvus) in Wales, <year>', which could be used publically once the breeding season was over, and a strictly confidential nest-by-nest 'Red kite breeding report for <year>'.

Original file of yearly breeding season reports, 1990-1999, many with the confidential section 2 containing the locations and success of each known breeding pair. Peter Davis compiled the report to the Kite Committe at the end of the breeding season, although there is frequently a revised report for the record in the light of further information. Also notes, drafts and circulation lists. Also site lists for 2000 and 2003, and Peter Davis's Welsh Kite Watchers Group nest record sheets for nests in the Nebo - Ffos-y-ffin - Felinfach area, co. Card., 2004.

Original file mainly comprising correspondence and other papers relating to licences to visit nests, take and handle eggs, take blood and other samples etc. for scientific purposes. Also extracts from Barry Sheavills's notebooks relating to the theft of eggs in Wales, 1986-1993.

Typescript and manuscript extracts relating to red kites from J. H. Salter's natural history diaries, 1891-1941, and published notes, 1893-1904.

Photocopies of J. A. Walpole-Bond's diaries of his visits to Wales, taken from transcripts printed in the 'Bulletin of the Jourdain Society', 1901-1903, and from the author's much less detailed manuscript diary, 1904-1930.

Original file of reports and historical references to kites outside Wales, mainly comprising photocopies from county faunas and bird books, for Peter Davis's projected history of the kite in Britain. The photocopies are from books dated 1834 (Robert Mudie, 'The feathered tribes of the British Isles') to 1989 (Lorand & Atkin, 'The birds of Lincolnshire and South Humberside').

H. Morrey Salmon, 'A history of the kite Milnus milnus (L.) in Wales', 1971, in four parts: (I), Narrative and 1977 addenda; (II) Tabulated ecological area records by decades, 1891-1970, with maps; (III) Ecological area records; and (IV) Appendices: (i) Membership of the 'Kite Group', 1958-1970, and dates of meetings, (ii) Map locations of places named, (iii) Select bibliography, and (iv) Reports of the Kite Committee, 1949-1957, and of the 'Kite Group', 1958-1970. The 1977 addenda was compiled by the author from the abstracts of kite records made by Peter Davis (A 7, below) from the papers of Dorothy Raikes (d. 1976), transferred by her trustees to the Nature Conservancy Council.
Copy no. 2 (Dup.).

Correspondence relating to stuffed kites and eggs in museum collections, 1944-1957; annual nest records, 1902-1932, extracted from Dr J. H. Salter's manuscript notebook (now NLW MS 14454B) by William Condry, 1951; and notes and extracts re. Welsh kites, including by William Condry, J. A. Walpole-Bond, E. Cambridge Phillips, C. H. Gowland, the British Ornithologists' Club, the RSPB; copies of correspondence re. eggs, 1932-1947; general British references from published books and articles, 1903-1939; and British county records from published books and articles, 1799-1949. Most of the typed pages are marked 'Wales/278'.

Original file of letters and copy replies with conservation officers, nest watchers, academics and members of the public.

Original file of general kite correspondence, mainly to Peter Davis.

Original file of letters and copy replies with conservation officers, nest watchers, academics and members of the public. Includes letters from Lelie Brown of Karen, Kenya, about his book 'British birds of prey' (New Naturalist Library no. 60, 1976), 1974-1975; D. A. Orton of Alverchurch watcher's diary and report to RSPB Newtown on a peregrine's nest 'on DG Rocks', 1975; and a letter from Roger Lovegrove, RSPB Wales Officer, that "should you have any reasonably decent corpse in your hands in the next couple of years" it would be a great favour if it could be frozen and lent to Charles Tunnicliffe, "as he has a great ambition to add Red Kite to this collection" of measured drawings of British birds, 1975.

Original file containing correspondence relating to the donation of the Kite Committee's collections of egg shells to the National Museum of Wales, including reference to a magistrate's suggestion that two kite's eggs confiscated in Liverpool should go to Ceredigion Museum, 1981; subsequent donations, 1982-1989; research by Adrian Fowles, NCC, into the insects in kite nest faunas, 1989; a request by the Faunal Remains Unit of Southampton University Archaeology Department for kite bones, 1989-1992 ; an analysis of the components of a kite's nest, 1990; kite carcasses sent to the English Heritage Ancient Monuments Laboratory, including a copy of 'Ancient Monuments Laboratory report 22/99, A list of mammal & bird skeletons in the comparative collection of the 'Ancient Monuments Laboratory London', 1991; an analysis of clutch sizes, brood sizes, nest robberies and distribution by 10km grid squares, 1946-1997; details of unhatched etc. eggs collected, 1990-1998; and a note that all remaining kite egg shells have been sent to the National Museum, 2016.

Original file of reports, memoranda and notes relating to the taking, swapping, rescuing and fostering eggs and chicks, including annual reports by Peter Davis, 1987-1988, Dr Nick Fox of Carmarthen, a keeper and breeder of raptors, 1987-1990, and Peter Walter Davies, 1989-1993.

Drafts of Peter Davis's chapter 'The red kite in Wales', originally intended for 'The birds of Wales'; published in 'WBR 89'.

Original file of abstracts of kite observations, 1929-1949, from the papers of Dorothy Taunton Raikes of Bwlch, co. Brec., made after her death by Peter Davis, 1976 (Nature Conservancy Council copy). Also correspondence between Morrey Salmon and Peter Davis, 1976-1977, mainly relating to Salmon's 1977 addenda to his 1971 'A history of the kite' (A 6 above).

Original file of D. G. Sansbury of Is-y-coed, Tal-y-bont, co. Card., including annual reports on the kite's status and nesting season, 1950-1955; correspondence relating to sightings, 1951-1956; Kite Committee papers, 1950-1953; abridged translations of two German articles on the breeding habits of kites in Brandenburg, 1934, and Vogelsberg, Hesse, 1947-1950; and a file including a [David Sansbury?] kite watcher's diary, June 1949-Dec. 1952 (8 pp.), a letter of introduction for David Sansbury from H. R. H. Vaughan, 1951; a map of the kite in co. Card.; and William Condry, 'Some preliminary notes on the natural history of the red kite in Wales' (7 pp.), Easter 1950.