Category: BIRD FLU

A couple more cases in wild birds in the latest DEFRA update.

Bird/poultry flu is detected in a Mute Swan on the Western Isles.

A few more cases in wild birds at the end of 2020 but another update is due very soon

We near the end of 2020 with a further rise in detected cases of avian flu in wild birds (affected counties shaded pink below), mostly swans and geese, and new cases in poultry in Devon and Norfolk (all cases this winter indicated with blue splodges below).

Records of avian/poultry flu in new counties: Bedfordshire, Tyne and Wear, Highland, Greater Manchester and County Durham. All of the cases are in waterfowl, and in fact in swans (Mute, Whooper, unspecified and unsecified) and Canada and Greylag Geese. This must indicate the ease with which dead swans and geeese can be noticed rather than…

A lot more cases in wild birds – mostly Mute Swans; … and one more in poultry – a backyard flock; …and a case in the far north of Scotland, in fact in Orkney; So now, it seems to me, that the counties with positive records for wild birds (shaded pink) and the locations of…

There’s another case of bird/poultry flu in captive birds and poultry announced today: And that site is somewhere under the blue splodge on the Derbyshire, Staffs and Leics border on the map below.

And here, after minutes of playing around with maps, are the counties in which there have been records of wild birds with positive H5N8 records (pink) and the rough locations (blue sprayed areas) of outbreaks in captive poultry/birds. I reckon there are more pink-shaded counties to come and quite possibly a lot more blue splodges.

DEFRA has now brought its reporting of bird/poultry flu cases in wild birds more up to date with cases recorded in the week ending Sunday 6 December. This shows three new counties; Gwent, Carmarthenshire and Yorkshire with bird flu cases in wild birds. Any ornithologist would be fascinated to see Great Egret and Dabchick on…

A further dozen cases of bird/poultry flu in ‘wild’ birds have been listed by DEFRA for the week which ended on 29 November (which suggests that the wild bird data are getting seriously out of date on the GOV UK website). This map from APHA shows the poultry farms currently under restrictions: two in Norfolk,…