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Original file of abstracts of kite observations from county histories, churchwardens' accounts, natural histories, diaries etc., typescript extracts from publications (many including references Wales/278, Spain/278 etc.), and memoranda and letters.

Original file of letters to William Condry, mainly with other naturalists and ornithologists, members of the Kite Committee and representatives of other societies. Includes reports of sightings; also the arrival of grey squirrels at Rhandirmwyn, co. Carm., 1949; a printed history and subscription list of the "Farmers' Defence Committee" against the Forestry Commission's proposed compulsory purchase of 20,000 acres in the Upper Tywi valley, 1949-1952; a list of known egg collectors, 1951; and the national campaign to criminalise the gin-trap, 1952.

Papers accumulated by Peter Davis, Kite Recorder for Wales, 1968-1999, secretary of the Red Kite Committee in Wales, 1968-1999, and trustee of the Welsh Kite Trust, 1996-2012, including earlier material from various sources.

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 relating to the formation of the Welsh Kite Trust, 1995-1996, and administration, including correspondence, drafts of documents, minutes of trustees' meetings, annual reports, Charity Commission publications, copies of 'Boda wennol: the newsletter of the Welsh Kite Trust'. Includes a letter to R.S. Thomas asking him to be a patron of the new trust, and his reply declining the offer, Jan. 1997.

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 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.

"Three years ago the Countryside Council for Wales decided it could no longer afford to contribute towards the cost of annual monitoring of the Welsh kite population, and in 1995 the RSPB followed suit ... So we set up the WKT in an attempt to replace the funding which was no longer available from CCW and RSPB, for monitoring, protection, research, and public education about kites in Wales" (Peter Davis letter to R. S. Thomas, Jan. 1997). Peter Davis was a trustee of the Welsh Kite Trust, 1996-2012.

Original file of general RSPB kite correspondence (orig. file ref. 1003). The original file cover (discarded) was entitled "RSPB Kite Correspondence, 1958-66. 'Dead' file per Andy Jones" and endorsed "RSPB 'dead' file, 'rescued' from recycling". The file mainly comprises letters addressed to Mr Brown, secretary of the RSPB, and P. J. Conder, assistant secretary, and copy replies, 1958-1968, many from Captain H. R. H. Vaughan, including relating to the kite reward scheme; "you will be interested to hear that I have unearthed, pretty nearly literally, Kite correspondence dated way back to 1900 and something", 9 Sept. 1959; the transfer of RSPB's early kite papers to Morrey Salmon, Jan. 1960; the RSPB's purchase of part of the Cawdor estate at Ystrad-ffin, co. Carm., 1963-1967; the switch by farmers from arsenical sheep-dips to dips containing dieldrin, including a recommendation to read Rachel Carson, 'Silent spring', 1963-1964; the proposed Llyn Brianne reservoir, 1965; the RSPB's purchase of Mrs Mappin's Ynys-hir estate, co. Card., 1966-1967; a proposed extension of the Pendine Proof & Experimental Establishment danger area, 1967; the lack of Welsh representation on the "Countryside in 1970" conference, 1968; and a newspaper cutting reporting the award of the RSPB gold medal to Captain and Mrs Vaughan, 1968.

Original file of reports of and notes on ringed or tagged dead kites, including the recovery of a ringed female (HT27208, ringed June 1988, found dead May 2012), probably the oldest recorded Welsh kite, displacing HW08418, a male that died at Tregaron in March 1992, a month younger than this new bird, 2012; and the recovery of HT25680, a male ringed at Talsarn, June 1990, found dead Aber-arth, at 23.5 years the third oldest kite known by ringing, Jan. 2014.

Annual lists of known nests in Wales, grid references, clutch sizes, successes and causes of failure, 1946-1999, compiled by Peter Davis.

Original file of correspondence and related papers, mainly between Peter Davis, Celia May and David Parkin relating to DNA studies, 1993-1994, and follow-up letters and emails, 2004 and 2012. Also a draft application by Matthew Hegarty of Aberystwyth University for a Knowledge Economy Skills Scholarship (KESS) for an MPhil student to assess the impact of introgression of continental birds on the diversity of the Welsh kite population since Dr Celia May's 1980s study, [post 2009].

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 scientific papers by Celia A. May and David T. Parkin, both of Nottingham University, on the genetic fingerprinting of wild birds, and particularly birds of prey.

Original file of letters, memoranda, papers and publications relating to the Welsh Office / Development Board for Rural Wales / RSPB / Welsh Tourist Board initiative to develop the Spotting the Red Kite (the Red Kite Trail) project, the name being changed c.Feb. 1994 to Red Kite Country. A letter in the general correspondence file for 1990-2011 (E 32 below) mentions that the initiative expired in 1997.

Original file of preliminary correspondence exploring the possibility of a survey in 2000.

Original file of e-mails, extracts, letters, lists, memoranda, drafts and photocopies of articles etc., including the death of Colonel H. Morrey Salmon, 1985; an English translation of the section on red kites from W. Miall Jones's unpublished manuscript 'Adar gogledd Ceredigion', c.1944; list of letters re. kites in the Condry correspondence file, 1948-1963, and the 'dead' RSPB kite file, 1958-1968 (now C 1-3 below); a draft of Peter Davis's obituary for R. S. Thomas (1913-2000); an obituary to Frances Evans, who started a kite feeding station at Tyndomen, Tregaron (Cambrian News, 19 March 2009); and extracts from papers at NLW and the Carm. CRO.

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.