 "The Journal (Newcastle, England)")
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Mission unusual as red kites return.(News)
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Byline: By Tony Henderson
One of the most dramatic wildlife projects ever mounted in the North-East is due to get off to a flying start next week.
The plan is to import 25 four-week-old red kite chicks from the Chilterns in southern England.
They will be reared in pens at secret locations in the Derwent Valley in Gateshead.
When they are released next month, it will be the first time for 150 years that one of the most spectacular birds of prey has flown free over the North-East.
It should mean that as people in urban Tyne and Wear and County Durham go about ...
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