Category: bird flu

These two RSPB videos begin to bring home the potential seriousness of the bird/poultry flu outbreak that is affecting seabirds not just in Shetland, and not just in the UK, but in coastal areas in the Netherlands and Norway too.  It seems very likely that through this summer we will learn that the impacts are…

Huge concern for UK’s seabirds as number dying from Avian Influenza continues to increase Impacts of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) on wild birds are intensifying fast in Scotland with reports of thousands of dead or dying seabirds and presumed cases now appearing in England. Shetland appears to be most heavily affected, but increasing reports…

The Scottish government announced today a case of bird flu in captive gamebirds near Glenrothes. in an email to stakeholders the Scottish government say: These gamebirds have never been wild and so can only have caught avian influenza on the establishment. and In light of evidence from the continent and ongoing high numbers of findings…

DEFRA’s latest upate on bird/poultry flu in wild birds shows they didn’t read Tim Melling’s excellent article on what we call Knot. Despite all this bird flu swilling around there haven’t been new outbreaks in poultry farms for quite a while – good!

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