{"id":277905,"date":"2025-11-22T21:52:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T21:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/277905\/"},"modified":"2025-11-22T21:52:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T21:52:07","slug":"arrest-after-five-poisoned-red-kites-found-dead-in-essex-field-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/277905\/","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":277906,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":{"0":"post-277905","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\/277905","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=277905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277905\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}