{"id":275931,"date":"2025-11-21T19:20:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T19:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/275931\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T19:20:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T19:20:07","slug":"arrest-after-five-poisoned-red-kites-found-dead-in-essex-field","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/275931\/","title":{"rendered":"Arrest after five poisoned red kites found dead in Essex field"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#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=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#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=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Red kites are found only in Europe and were extinct in England and Scotland 40 years ago.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/crrez8x7l55o\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">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":"&#8220;Red kites, along with all birds of prey, are protected under the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981,&#8221; said&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":275932,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":{"0":"post-275931","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom","11":"tag-unitedkingdom","12":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275931\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/275932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}