Red Kite
The Kites were persecuted to the point of near extinction in the 1900s due to the above beliefs. A way of reducing the population quite substantially was to leave a poisoned corpse of a sheep or pony, which the Kites would then scavenge and be killed in huge numbers.
They could easily kill 150 birds in one go – quite shocking really, especially considering it was based on an unsubstantiated claim that they were capable of snatching lambs!
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