| Titre : | Supplementary feeding of the reintroduced Red Kite Milvus milvus in UK gardens (2014) |
| Auteurs : | Melanie E. Orros, Auteur ; Mark D. E. Fellowes, Auteur |
| Type de document : | Article |
| Dans : | Bird Study (61(2) APR 3 2014) |
| Article en page(s) : | 260-263 |
| Langues: | Anglais |
| Résumé : | Capsule The provision of meat for garden birds is unusual in the UK but a reintroduced raptor, the Red Kite Milvus milvus, is now regularly fed in some areas. A questionnaire of garden kite feeders revealed that people were most often motivated to feed by a desire to see kites close up and that most provisioning falls within available guidelines. We estimated the median amount of food thought to be taken by kites per kite-feeding garden per day as 21 g, sufficient to support 0.12-0.26 individuals. |



