Kites (Milvus spp.) wintering on Crete

Acute poisoning of Red Kites (Milvus milvus) in France: data from the Sagir network.

Red Kites (Milvus milvus) are avian scavengers limited to Europe, and they currently are listed as an endangered species worldwide. Accidental poisoning is often listed as one of the threats to Red Kites throughout their range of distribution. The purpose of this article is to investigate the suspected poisoning cases reported to the French Wildlife Disease Surveillance System. Dead animals are...

Widespread supplementary feeding in domestic gardens explains the return of reintroduced Red Kites Milvus milvus to an urban area

Reintroductions are commonly used to mitigate biodiversity loss. One prominent example is that of the Red Kite Milvus milvus, a charismatic raptor of conservation concern. This species has been reintroduced across the UK over the last 25 years following its near extinction after centuries of persecution. The species was not expected to recolonize urban areas; its historical association with hum...

8 Outer Billiards on Kites

Outer Billiards on Kites

1 Preface Outer billiards is a basic dynamical system defined relative to a convex shape in the plane. B.H. Neumann introduced outer billiards in the 1950s, and J. Moser popularized outer billiards in the 1970s as a toy model for celestial mechanics. Outer billiards is an appealing dynamical system because of its simplicity and also because of its connection to such topics as interval exchange ...

Prioritizing species conservation: does the Cape Verde kite exist?

The Cape Verde kite (Milvus milvus fasciicauda) is considered to be one of the rarest birds of prey in the world and at significant risk of extinction. For this reason there is great interest in both the taxonomic and the population status of this group. To help resolve its taxonomic status, we provide phylogenetic analyses based on three mitochondrial genes for a sampling of kites in the genus...