The Red Kite is a beautiful-looking bird of prey that has long wings and a long forked tail. It can stay and soar in the sky for hours hardly beating its wings and it often changes the angle of its long tail to steer as it hunts. It can mainly be found in central England in woodlands, on farmlands and on grassland.

The Red Kite has a striking chestnut-red coloured body with darker streaks and a grey-white head. Its tail is an orange-red colour and its legs and feet are bright yellow. The underside of the wings from the base to the middle is black along the outer edges and from the middle to the tip of the wings there is a striking white patch. The finger-looking tips of the wings are also black. It has amber coloured eyes which are surrounded by yellow-lemon feathers. It has a wingspan of around two metres.

Red Kites can be seen singly or in pairs, but when food supply is in abundance, groups of Red Kites can be seen together. They glide quite low when they hunt for food such as voles, mice and rabbits and when they see their prey, they quickly dive and use their powerful talons to seize and carry their prey away. Red Kites will also eat earthworms, small birds and dead sheep, as well as other dead animals.