One ecologist counted 160 dead wild birds while walking round a Scottish loch, and figures from other countries are just as worrying

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jun/02/geese-skuas-cranes-foxes-avian-flu-takes-growing-toll-on-wildlife-aoe

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Stephen Moss

@stephenmoss_tvThu 2 Jun 2022 02.30 EDT

As he walked along the shoreline of a Highland loch on a fine May evening, ecologist and wildlife photographer Peter Stronach could hardly believe what he was seeing. The beach was littered with dead and dying birds: male eider ducks, several species of gulls, a gannet, a puffin and no fewer than 26pink-footed geese, which should by now have been on the way back to their Icelandic breeding grounds.

In all, Stronach recorded 72 individual birds of 17 species at Loch Fleet national nature reserve on…