• Bird Flu Update March 2023 – Our Science Work
    Taking on the role of Policy Assistant – Avian Influenza has been a steep learning curve for me, but due to the unprecedented nature of the current outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI...
  • Bird Flu Update – December 2022
    After a devastating summer for our seabirds as a result of the worst-ever avian flu outbreak to date, we have been monitoring the return of our wintering wildfowl populations with bated breath. When...
  • Bird flu
    We don't hear much about bird flu - possibly better called poultry flu - these days. A few years ago the media were full of it and how it might threaten the poultry industry here in the UK and elsewhere...
  • Bird flu update from Islay, October 2022
    The bird flu virus has had catastrophic effects on the UK’s breeding seabirds this summer, causing thousands of deaths and affecting the whole coast of the UK. Particularly badly affected were gannets...
  • Bird flu Update December 2021
    Right now, the UK is experiencing an unprecedented outbreak of Avian Flu and we urgently need your help... bit.ly/3e7VbB3 The current outbreak of avian influenza is the largest ever in the UK which...