The female is as much as 25% bigger than the male - the size difference is so significant that females have a more diverse diet than males as they’re able to catch a wider range of prey. Small but deadly, the Sparrowhawk is a small to medium-sized bird of prey from the Accipiter family. Learn more about the Sparrowhawk Sparrowhawk Seeing groups of 5 to 20 Red kites encircling carrion is not uncommon. While they do hunt small mammals, Red kites generally prefer to take carrion by hovering and swooping in to grasp it with their talons. They have a white-brown head and a large, hooked bill. Red kites are exceptionally large birds, measuring some 60 to 70cm on average with a wingspan of 175 to 185cm, and have a reddish-brown body and broad, white-tipped wings and large forked tail. These graceful, imposing raptors are now a common sight over both urban and rural areas. For example, in 1990, 13 Red kites were released in the Chilterns, and as of 2020, there are probably some 4,000 breeding pairs.
They were reintroduced to the Chilterns, East Midlands, Yorkshire and other parts of northern England throughout the 1990s and are now thriving across virtually all of the UK. In much of the 20th century, Red kites were heavily persecuted for their eggs and became confined to small parts of Wales. Famed for their graceful hovering flight and playful and gregarious nature, Red kites are a conservation success story. Red kites are the UK’s largest common birds of prey, with an impressive wingspan of 175 to 185cm.
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