File PC3/1 - Kite Committee

The file comprises letters concerning the proposed formation of the Kite Committee, the need for protection, ways of increasing kite population and distribution, requirements for public awareness, secrecy of nest locations, habits of nesting kites and distinguishing features, the correspondents including Dorothy Raikes, 1947, and Geoffrey Ingram, 1949; articles on kites by Condry, H. R. H. Vaughan and Morrey Salmon; notebooks containing minutes of a meeting of the West Wales Field Society, 1950, history of the Red Kite and its decline in Britain, notes recording sightings of kites, nest sites, condition and success of nests and useful contacts; typed private newsletter of the Kite Committee, 1971, and a typed extract from the journal of Bertram Lloyd for 1931; manuscript draft of a talk given by Condry at Shrewsbury in 1949, regarding the current position of the Kite Committee, its weaknesses and suggestions for improvement in kite protection methods