
Wild bird populations have been decimated across the UK and scientists fear there is more to come in 2023
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Sat 24 Dec 2022 02.45 EST
It is more than a year since avian flu began to devastate wild birds in large numbers, and conservationists are fearful of what 2023 will hold. The highly infectious variant of H5N1 has causedEurope’s worst bird flu seasonand has spread across the globe with little sign of slowing.
In the UK, there were reports of some great skua dying from the H5N1 variant in the summer of 2021 but the mass die-offs started in theautumn and winter. More than a third of Svalbard barnacle geese in the Solway…
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