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🦅 Swipe for maps of our Red kites travelling between countries and continents 🇲🇦 One of our Red kite nestlings released in Spain this summer has decided to follow the sun and headed all the way to Morocco! This young male is part of over 500 Red kites that have been GPS tagged in Europe in the last two years in an effort to understand the behavior and threats to these species. As GPS devices become more accessible, tagging a high number of individuals in this way is proving a powerful method in gathering important information on endangered species. The GPS tags in this project have already helped us uncover some misconceptions about the threats to Red kites, showing that poisoning is a more important threat than we had believed and electrocution by power lines is a threat with less impact than previously thought. At Mossy Earth, we are supporting the tagging and release of 100 Red kites in Spain with our on the ground partner AMUS. Another bird, a female tagged and released in Spain as part of #lifeeurokite has spent the summer in France and has now returned to the feeding station in Extremadura managed by AMUS. If you’d like to support this project and many other impactful rewilding projects, check out our membership -LINK IN BIO. #redkite #redkites #endangeredspecies #raptors #raptor #mossyearthsmembership #mossyearth