Category: bird flu

The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs has published positive cases of bird flu for each week since the last two weeks of December 2016. These figures used to be updated weekly but large gaps are now appearing between updates – click here.  Positive cases are dead birds sent in to the authorities in…

This is from SOVON in The Netherlands https://www.sovon.nl/actueel/nieuwsberichten/opnieuw-veel-wilde-vogels-getroffen-door-vogelgriep: ‘The current outbreak of the highly pathogenic H5N1 virus, which has been causing increased bird mortality in the Netherlands since November, is spreading rapidly. Barnacle geese in the north of the Netherlands are particularly hard hit, but the virus has also been detected in other species and…

New study shows role of bird flu in widespread declines of UK seabirds A new report by the RSPB has for the first time, quantified the effects of recent Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) outbreaks on the populations of the UK’s seabirds. Of the 13 species included in the study, nine showed declines, three of…

The lists below tell you something of the progression of bird flu in wild birds in the UK since the winter of 2016/17.  The data come from Defra – click here. You are able, and very welcome, to re-do this little analysis and see for yourself.  I expect my version has a few errors in…

Black eyes in seabirds indicates bird flu survival Scientists have discovered evidence that Northern Gannets can recover from bird flu and that unusual black iris coloration is linked to a previous HPAIV infection The study also assessed the impact of HPAI on adult gannet survival at the largest gannet colony in the world – the…