The census of red kite nests in Basilicata, which began in spring 2021, continued until late summer and provided positive information on the conservation status of the species. A total of 34 nests and 42 territories were identified in a very limited area of the region, equal to 2.8% of...

During the spring of 2021, expert ornithologists, commissioned by the Aspromonte National Park Authority, carried out intensive fieldwork to locate and census red kite nests in a large area of Basilicata. Basilicata is the Italian region that hosts the largest breeding population in the whole of Italy and was therefore...

A study conducted in the southern part of the Aspromonte National Park identified medium voltage power lines potentially dangerous to birds and assigned each of them a priority code for the implementation of isolation measures under the LIFE MILVUS project. Electrocution is one of the most important threats to the...

On 9 March 2021, a workshop was held online among the staff of the LIFE MILVUS project dedicated to the research and monitoring of red kite nests. The event provided useful information for the field work of ornithologists who, on behalf of the Aspromonte National Park Authority, are locating red...

In 2020, the Feasibility Plan for the reintroduction of the red kite in the Aspromonte National Park, drawn up by the Park Authority in 2017, was revised and updated and the outcome of the new study confirmed that the species' reintroduction programme has a very good chance of success. The...

The staff of the Aspromonte National Park visited, on 4 and 5 December 2019, the Centro Rapaci Minaci CERM, a facility dedicated to the conservation of birds of prey located in the province of Grosseto. CERM was the hub of a reintroduction programme that, between 2007 and 2014, brought the...