Bird/poultry flu update and musings

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listed by DEFRA for the week which ended on 29 November (which suggests that the wild bird data are getting seriously out of date on the GOV UK website).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,…

Bird/poultry flu update

A poultry farm in the Brecks is affected. And there is a long list of ‘wild’ birds that have tested positive too in the last week reported (up to 30 November); The list of birds is interesting; lots of Mute Swans (and some Black) and some raptors. The pile of Mute Swans from Dorset are…

Bird flu update – another Buzzard

Following last week’s update on bird flu cases in ‘wild’ birds, there has been another case, in another Buzzard in Suffolk. So it looks as though the bird flu virus has been isolated from five dead Buzzards in the same location in Suffolk which might be the same location that a Goshawk tested positive too….

Bird flu – update with some interesting developments

I’m grateful to Miles King’s Twitter feed (@MilesKing10) for pointing me in this direction – although it was on (although  quite a long way down) my to-do list anyway. I’ve updated you on the cases reported by Defra of bird flu in ‘wild’ birds over the last few years, and several times this winter  (most…