A Red Kite has been captured stealing visitor's food at a popular Marlow park.
The video sees the Red Kite flying low to the ground at Higginson park before taking park-goers food.
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Once a rare sight only found in Wales, the bird of prey was successfully reintroduced in several areas of the UK, including the Chilterns, in a bid to save it from extinction.
Largely scavengers, Red Kites usually eat carrion and scraps but there have been reports of them attacking families and walkers in search of food.
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In 2019, the Buckinghamshire, Berkshire and Oxfordshire Wildlife Trust warned that some Red Kites are becoming "tame" because people keep feeding them.
In 2018, people were warned not to feed the birds of prey after two toddlers were left with cuts when a bird swooped in and tried to snatch their sandwiches in Higginson Park in Marlow.
In 2016, a three-year-old girl was clawed by the large bird as it swooped down to try and take a cupcake from a picnic bench at Watlington Park, near Stokenchurch.
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