Author: Poiana

Many of the red kites released in the Aspromonte National Park in 2023-2024 thanks to the LIFE MILVUS project have made significant journeys, while returning sporadically to their birthplace. They have repeatedly reached Sicily, where some of them have wintered, and have explored peninsular Italy, passing through Basilicata, Puglia, and...

Newsletter No. 3 of the LIFE MILVUS project is now available in PDF format. It focuses in particular on the release of 15 young red kites into the wild, which took place in the Aspromonte National Park in July 2025, the most significant events involving some of the red kites...

On September 13, 2025, Hans the red kite returned to fly in the skies of Aspromonte. Born in Switzerland and released in the Aspromonte National Park in August 2024, on May 6, 2025, the young bird of prey survived a close encounter with a wind turbine blade in central Calabria....

Between July 19 and 23, 2025, fifteen young red kites were released in the Aspromonte National Park as part of the reintroduction program underway under the LIFE MILVUS project. Ten specimens originated from the Canton of Fribourg (Switzerland), where they were taken from their nests in mid-June, while five specimens...

Since July 17, 2025, five young red kites born at the La Alfranca Wildlife Recovery Center in Aragon, Spain, have been guests in the aviaries of the Aspromonte National Park's acclimatization and release center. Departing from the Spanish center in a van equipped to transport animals, the young birds of...

As of June 13, 2025, aviaries at the Aspromonte National Park release center will be home to ten young red kites born in Switzerland. Here they will spend a short acclimatization period prior to their release into the wild. Born about a month and a half ago in the canton...