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In Flew Enza

By Robert Montgomerie|2025-03-02T20:14:10+00:0023 Jan 2025|disease, History of Ornithology, Seabirds, waterbirds|

A brief history of bird flu

Wings and wellbeing – exploring birds and human health

By Caoimhe Doyle|2024-04-29T08:49:17+00:0018 Mar 2024|anthropogenic food sources, bird-human interactions, birds of conservation concern, citizen science, disease, IBIS, infectious diseases|

How can we highlight the positive links between human health and wild birds for conservation?

Black-eyed Birds

By Jude Lane|2024-02-12T11:20:32+00:0012 Feb 2024|adult survival, birds of conservation concern, Breeding, colouration, disease, infectious diseases|

A new way to monitor impact of avian influenza in Gannets?

Revealing the Redleg’s Secrets

By Giovanni Forcina|2022-12-12T14:26:00+00:0022 Dec 2022|avian biology, climate change, disease, DNA barcoding, DNA sequencing, Farmland birds, Galliformes, game bird, Genetics, genomics, grassland birds, Science|

The whole genome marks a new era for the Red-legged Partridge

Human threats to British raptors

By Connor Panter|2022-07-08T12:43:36+00:007 Jul 2022|adult survival, biodiversity, bird-human interactions, birds of prey, disease, early career, early-career researcher, ECR, illegal killing, monitoring, mortality, population dynamics, populations, raptors, rehabilitation, road traffic, survival, volunteers|

What are the main threats to British raptors and have these changed over time?

The ecology of avian blood parasites

By Jente Ottenburghs (he/him)|2022-03-19T13:17:00+00:0024 Mar 2022|avian malaria, bird assemblages, disease, forest birds, Himalayan birds, parasites|

Mapping the distribution of parasites across Himalayan bird species.

Vultures and condors may help to prevent the spread of infectious diseases

By Pablo Plaza |2020-10-05T21:01:40+00:005 Aug 2020|behaviour, condors, disease, infectious diseases, scavengers, vultures|

While pathogen microorganisms colonise obligate scavenger birds, there is no clear evidence of them spreading pathogens to the ecosystem

Ash Dieback – how much should we worry?

By Shelley E Hinsley|2021-12-07T14:19:59+00:0028 Apr 2014|Conservation, disease, woodland birds|

What happened to ash dieback?