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Original file of minutes of Welsh Kite Trust meetings and related papers, ending with Peter Davis's resignation as a trustee, effective Dec. 2011, and a note on the archive, Sept. 2016.

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

Original file of notes of observations of tagged birds.

Original file of letters to Peter Davis and copy replies, including re. proposals for a monograph on kites for T. & A.D. Poyser, 1989-1994, Shire Publications, 1989, Christopher Helm, 1990-1991, and George Philip, 1991; Roger Lovegrove's kite monograph, 1990; 'New atlas of breeding birds in Britain and Ireland', 1991; and Mike Pienkowski's book on the reintroduction of the kite, 1994-1997. Also drafts of Peter Davis kite papers, including the kite chapter for G. Williams, 'BoW' [published as 'Birds in Wales'], 1993; and 'The red kite in Wales: setting the record straight' for 'British Birds', 1993; 'Kite and land use in Wales, report to the Forestry Commission, 1993; 'The red kite and Hafod', [c.1994]; and the kite article for the BTO Atlas of Migration, 1999-2002.

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 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 miscellaneous (unfiled?) papers relating to kite populations.

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

Original file including an off-print of P. Walters Davies & P. E. Davis, 'The ecology and conservation of the red kite in Wales', 1973; off-prints of articles of which Peter Davis was author or co-author, 1981-1996; print-outs of Peter Davis et al., 'Movement, settlement, breeding, and survival of red kites Milvus milvus marked in Wales' (2001), and Davis's chapter on the red kite for 'Birds of Ceredigion' (2010); and a copy of Tony Cross & Peter Davis, 'The red kites of Wales', Welsh Kite Trust, 2005.

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 miscellaneous kite-related leaflets and publications. Includes copies of 'Birds' magazine, Winter 1983 and Winter 1985; RSPB annual reports of offences against wild bird legislation, 1990-1992; second draft of English Nature/RSPB 'UK Red Kite Action Plan', Oct. 1997; English Nature research report no. 451, 'The red kite reintroduction programme in England', 2002; and 'Jahresbericht 2000 zum Monitoring Greifvögel und Eulen Europas' (Monitoring of raptors and owls of Europe, annual report 2000), Martin Luther University, 2001.

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

Original file of correspondence and related papers, mainly between Peter Davis, Celia May and David Parkin relating to DNA studies, including the early twentieth century genetic bottleneck, and the more recent introgression by a German female into the Welsh population.

Original file of reports of dead kites, post mortems and analyses for poisons and toxic chemicals. Also publications relating to pesticide poisoning and illegal poisoning of wildlife.

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.