{"id":235192,"date":"2026-01-15T20:39:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T20:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/235192\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T20:39:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T20:39:07","slug":"red-kite-doing-really-well-after-marden-roadside-rescue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/235192\/","title":{"rendered":"Red kite &#8216;doing really well&#8217; after Marden roadside rescue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">A red kite found with a damaged wing and head trauma is &#8220;doing really well&#8221;, a wildlife charity has said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">A member of the public found the bird of prey at a roadside in Marden, Kent, after it was &#8220;most likely struck by a vehicle&#8221;, Folly Wildlife Rescue said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Rescuers were not sure if the bird would &#8220;make it through the first half an hour&#8221;, according to the Tunbridge Wells-based centre.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The bird will be moved to an aviary where it can begin flying again to continue its rehabilitation as a result of progress with its recovery, the charity said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">A Folly spokesperson said: &#8220;We don&#8217;t recommend handling birds of prey without proper training because of their talons, but he was so collapsed when he was found, he didn&#8217;t put up a fight at all.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Red kites were once extinct in England but a <a target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/crrez8x7l55o\" class=\"sc-f9178328-0 iCaRzc\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">conservation programme in the 1980s and 1990s<\/a> successfully brought them back.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">They mainly feed on carrion, so can often be seen soaring over roads looking for roadkill, according to the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A red kite found with a damaged wing and head trauma is &#8220;doing really well&#8221;, a wildlife charity&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":235193,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[111,139,69,147,406],"class_list":{"0":"post-235192","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-new-zealand","9":"tag-newzealand","10":"tag-nz","11":"tag-science","12":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235192\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}