Yesterday Defra updated the information on cases of avian flu in ‘wild’ birds in the UK. Bird flu has now been detected in a range of species in a range of counties as follows: I have some doubts about the value of the Defra and EU testing of ‘wild’ birds – see here and here….
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Bird flu – which birds (2)?
This blog follows on from an earlier post today. I’m interested, mainly because I am interested in birds, but also because I am interested in ecology, and also because I have reason to be interested in the impacts of avian flu on poultry keepers, in how commercial poultry flocks get avian influenza and the role…
Bird flu – which birds?
It looked as though we might get through this winter without avian flu arriving on our shores but no such luck. After the first case was detected at the swannery at Abbotsbury there is now another case involving 13 wild birds in Warwickshire. Let’s hope that there are no more cases affecting poultry and poultry…
Bird flu update
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In the last four weeks there has only been one identified case of bird flu in wild birds in the UK and that was a Mute Swan in Somerset towards the beginning of that 4-week period. DEFRA state that earlier in the year there were as many as 55 dead birds per week being submitted…
Bird flu update
It seems as though (touch wood!) the H5N8 bird flu outbreak across Europe is coming towards an end – at least that’s what is being said in France, arguably the country worst hit this winter. In England, Defra has a map of higher-risk and lower-risk areas which looks like it could win a prize for…