Crime Reporter, also covering Barton and Wood Farm.
BIRD watchers have warned RAF Benson will get no benefit from shooting red kites out of the sky.
The military helicopter air base has said it may need to kill some of the birds of prey for safety reasons after two flew into aircraft in the past two months.
The base got permission to kill the birds from Natural England in June last year. But experts have said more of the birds will come and replace any killed.
Ian Lewington, Oxford Ornithological Society’s bird recorder for the county, said: “If it is that much of a problem they have to get rid of all of them. You cannot just get rid of two of them.
“It is a void – it will be filled. They are opportunist, that is why they are so successful.”
Between 1989 and 1994, 93 fledgling kites were released in the Chilterns where the birds had been hunted to extinction.
It is thought there are now more than 1,000 pairs in the area.
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