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"We're now starting to enter the high-risk period for avian influenza and that is signalled by the movement of migratory birds," he said.

Since the avian flu arrived en force in California’s dairy industry in 2024, not only has it sickened cows, it has killed hundreds of domestic cats.

Stricter rules on releasing millions of gamebirds into the Welsh countryside are needed urgently over fears for native wildlife and the spread of avian flu, campaigners have said.

Teeth marks made on the leg bone of a large avian reptile known as a terror bird 13 million years ago suggest an even bigger predator may have killed it, scientists say.

At the outset of the trip, Mr Barber said he was hoping that avian flu had "eased off", after a "quite disastrous" impact on the swan population.