拍品專文
Gould described the 'soaring, buoyant and gracefully circling flights of the kites' as different from the impetuous stoops of true falcons. The kites did not pursue their prey but circled high in the air scanning for carrion, dead fish, insects, small rodents and fledglings.
Wolf's male kite, two-thirds life size, is rich red with a deeply forked tail. In the background is a nest of sticks placed in a tree fork.
DISTRIBUTION: Breeds locally in central and southern Europe and northwest Africa. Northern populations winter from southern Europe and Mediterranean area east to west India. In Britain by about 1900 reduced by human persecution to small relict population in Wales; now strictly protected and population increasing (71 pairs bred in 1991). Two current re-introduction schemes in Scotland and England have also had birds successfully breeding
Wolf's male kite, two-thirds life size, is rich red with a deeply forked tail. In the background is a nest of sticks placed in a tree fork.
DISTRIBUTION: Breeds locally in central and southern Europe and northwest Africa. Northern populations winter from southern Europe and Mediterranean area east to west India. In Britain by about 1900 reduced by human persecution to small relict population in Wales; now strictly protected and population increasing (71 pairs bred in 1991). Two current re-introduction schemes in Scotland and England have also had birds successfully breeding