A national housing order came in across England on Monday 7 November making it a legal requirement to house flocks An outbreak of bird flu has been confirmed in west Dorset, the government has said. The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) said the H5N1 strain had been […]
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A tiny broken bone, misidentified for decades, has upended scientists’ view of bird evolution. For nearly 200 years, zoologists have divided birds into two categories: those with mobile joints in their upper jaw that allow their upper beak to move, and a much smaller group, including ostriches and emus, with […]
Rescued chicken The world is going through its worst-ever outbreak of bird flu. The highly infectious H5N1 strain of the disease is responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of wild birds and millions of domestic ones. What is bird flu and how deadly is it? Bird flu is […]
A government order for all kept birds and poultry to stay indoors came into force on 7 November Bird flu has dealt a killer blow to a York butcher’s Christmas orders after an outbreak at his supplier’s farm. Karl Slater, who runs Tony Neary Butchers, said he had 57 orders […]
A wildlife trust said it has confirmed cases of avian flu at one of its nature reserves. The Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire Wildlife Trust (BBOWT) urged visitors to Hosehill Lake near Reading to take precautions. A statement on the trust’s website said the risk of transmission to humans remained low […]
Dog owners and walkers are asked to stay to footpaths and use leads A strain of bird flu that is known to infect humans and other animals has been identified in Jersey but the risk is low. Islanders who come across a sick or dead wild bird on public land […]
“We’re keeping everyone off the farm that doesn’t need to be on here,” says Victoria Shervington-Jones Bird flu is a “massive worry” for poultry farms, compounding problems due to rising costs, one farmer has said. Victoria Shervington-Jones, from Country Fresh Eggs in Newport, has welcomed new measures requiring farms to […]
This buzzard was found by the charity in a trap in Nottinghamshire A wildlife charity has added Derbyshire to its list of bird of prey crime hotspots. The RSPB said raptor persecution remains at a sustained high level, especially in England. Mark Thomas, RSPB head of investigations UK, called for […]