Ruficanus may seem like a mystery, but has always been here…
For almost 200 years the red kite (Milvus, Milvus) was persecuted in the United Kingdom. Wiped out completely in England by the 1930s, the last pairs clung on in a few small patches, in the remotest parts of the land.
Sadly this also saw the end of the Ruficanus. The great grey and red kite of legend, produced only when the “soar” became strong enough in number to produce them.
1990 saw a re-introduction of red kites into the Chiltern Hills at Lewknor, a short drive from our offices in Henley-on-Thames.
There are now over 6,000 breeding pairs of red kites in the UK, and they can be seen soaring all over the Chiltern Hills, and far beyond.
…keep looking upwards, and perhaps one day, and one day soon, you will see a Ruficanus on the wing.
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