![]() However both birds start their breeding at almost the same time (late March to early April) and, with similar clutch sizes and incubation/fledging times, breeding activity is effectively contemporaneous. Buzzards, once paired, tend to hold their territories throughout the year whereas Kites, particularly young birds, will range quite widely outside the breeding season and often gather in large roosts or feeding parties over the winter period. Co-sponsors of the survey were the Newbury District and the Reading Ornithological Clubs and there was good publicity given via both bird clubs' websites as well as the widely read berksbirds website and Yahoo Group.īoth species have a basically similar, although not identical, breeding timing and territorial habits. As with the 2005 Kingfisher survey we aimed to encourage as many birdwatchers as possible to get involved in simple survey work. The main aim of this survey was therefore to assess the current position and attempt an estimate of the numbers of breeding pairs of each species. Buzzard was recorded only very sparsely with just three proven breeding records within the county boundary, all of these being in the west and with all of these very close to the border (Standley et al. The surveying for the Birds of Berkshire took place in 1987 to 1989 and did not record Red Kite at all in the county. The distribution and abundance of both Red Kite ( Milvus milvus) and Common Buzzard ( Buteo buteo) in Berkshire has changed dramatically in the last twenty years. ![]() The Berkshire Red Kite and Buzzard Survey 2006ĥ February 2007 | Chris Robinson Background to the survey
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