{"id":154368,"date":"2025-11-22T21:15:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T21:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/154368\/"},"modified":"2025-11-22T21:15:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T21:15:11","slug":"arrest-after-five-poisoned-red-kites-found-dead-in-essex-field","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/154368\/","title":{"rendered":"Arrest after five poisoned red kites found dead in Essex field"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">A man has been arrested after five red kites were found dead in a field.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The birds of prey were found poisoned in Orsett, Thurrock, and a man from Aveley has been arrested.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">PC Luke Jones, of Essex Police, said: &#8220;Tests have shown that they were poisoned. The poisons used are deadly not only to wildlife but also to humans.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The force said the man had been released under investigation and its inquiries were continuing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">&#8220;Red kites, along with all birds of prey, are protected under the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981,&#8221; said PC Jones.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">&#8220;Anyone who finds a dead bird of prey or suspects illegal activity should report the information to police via our website. But please take care not to touch them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Red kites are found only in Europe and were extinct in England and Scotland 40 years ago.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">After <a target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/crrez8x7l55o\" class=\"sc-f9178328-0 iCaRzc\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">hard work from conservationists<\/a>, their population surged between 1995 and 2022, and there are thought to be 6,000 mating pairs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man has been arrested after five red kites were found dead in a field. The birds of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":154369,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[61,60,82,263],"class_list":{"0":"post-154368","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-science","11":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154368\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}