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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.

Lists of 'gled', 'kit' and 'puttock' placenames from the Ordnance Survey 1:50,000 Gazetteer, 4th ed., 1999; lists of latest breeding record or presence by county, statements on the distribution of kites in British bird books published at least 1802-1959; extracts relating to kites from county histories, faunas and ornithologies, including the 'Victoria County History' for England and the 'Old' and 'New Statistical Accounts' for Scotland. Also several references to kites in archaeological sites and churchwardens' accounts.

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 of Welsh Kite Trust/Welsh Kite Watchers' Committee annual meeting agendas, minutes and related papers. Includes a copy of the Wales Raptor Study Group report, 2004; and heads of agreement (unsigned) between the Golden Eagle Trust of Ireland and the Welsh Kite Trust for the supply of 265 young Welsh red kites over five years for release in Co. Down and Co. Wicklow, 2007.

Original file of copies of "Boda wennol : cylchlythyr Ymddiriedolaeth Barcudiaid Cymru=the newsletter of the Welsh Kite Trust", no's 1-28 (Spring 1997-Autumn 2013).

Original file of relating the Welsh Kite Trust, including correspondence, minutes of trustees' meetings, annual reports, papers relating to a proposal to reintroduce red kites to Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, 2006, drafts of Cross & Davis, 'The red kites of Wales', responses to a proposed publication 'Cri'r barcud coch' by four junior schools in the Builth area, 2003, and to a proposed Camddwr wind turbine development, 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.

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

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

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

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 overhead-projector transparencies of kite populations and distributions.

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

Original file of population charts, being records of kites (breeding pair, number of young reared, settled non-breeders, and other birds in the area) for each home range in April, 1946-1993. The charts are arranged by river catchment area: I (Dyfi catchment northward), II (Stewi, Rheidol, Ystwyth, Wyre), III (Teifi, Aeron), IV (Tywi and S. Carm.), V (Wye), VI (Usk), VII (Severn), VIII (Nedd, Tawe). Also lists and reference numbers of new territories for 1994 and 1995.

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 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.