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National Trust rangers dressed in hazmat suits collecting dead birds on the islands
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/uk-bird-flu-wave-kills-27567244
By
Matthew DreschNews Reporter
- 10:24, 25 Jul 2022
- UPDATED10:57, 25 Jul 2022
A bird flu outbreak on a UK island chain could kill tens of thousands of seabirds in an “unprecedented wildlife tragedy”.
National Trust rangers working on the Farne Islands off the Northumberland coast have so far collected well over 3,000 dead birds for incineration.
But they fear that many thousands more have succumbed to the deadly disease and fallen off the cliffs into the North Sea.
The Farnes, which are looked after by the National Trust, are an internationally-important habitat for 23 species, including puffins, with 200,000 birds living there.
Cliff-nesting birds seemed to be the worst-affected by the bird flu outbreak, with guillemots, kittiwakes and young puffins known as pufflings among those recovered.
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More than 3,000 birds have already died in the outbreak (
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Rangers working for the trust have donned protective hazmat suits and removed the birds’ carcasses to prevent further contamination.
Some of the casualties include an eight-year-old Arctic tern which would have flown from the Farne Islands to Antarctica and back eight times during its lifetime, covering 144,000 miles.
Also discovered was a 16-year-old kittiwake which was previously spotted and “ringed” on the islands in 2006.
Rangers are removing carcasses to prevent further contamination
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This is just so tragic and depressing; birds were threatened and endangered before this frigging bird flu….
All because so many people want to eat so many chickens.