🚨⚠️ #H5N1 #biodiversity #Bird #birdphotography #pandemic Avian Influenza spreading into species not typically affected & has spillover into 🦊 foxes. @pen_is_mighty @pewtergod @listopara2022 @SoilEcon @Msmariablack @Blueoceanarctic @NancyNoCo24
theguardian.com/environment/20…
theguardian.com/environment/20…
1/“More than 300 outbreaks have been reported in UK seabird colonies & dozens of coastal sites have closed to the public. The Farne Islands are home to 200,000 seabirds, including Arctic terns, Atlantic puffins, guillemots, kittiwakes & razorbills MORE
3/“The US is suffering what looks to become the worst ever outbreak of bird flu…More than 37 million chickens & turkeys have so far been culled, with more to come. If just👉one bird tests positive, the farmers must destroy the entire flock. MORE
4/ #wildlifephotography #Wildlife #Eagles
“As one report noted: “In Wisconsin, lines of dump trucks take days to collect masses of bird carcasses and pile them in unused fields. Neighbours live w/the stench of the decaying birds.” Even the bald eagle 🦅has been affected.”MORE
“As one report noted: “In Wisconsin, lines of dump trucks take days to collect masses of bird carcasses and pile them in unused fields. Neighbours live w/the stench of the decaying birds.” Even the bald eagle 🦅has been affected.”MORE
5/May 2022 “MI Dept of Natural Res reports 3 red fox kits died of H5N1-a 4th recovered but [is blind]. MN reports #H5N1 killed a wild fox there-2 wild red fox kits in Ontario tested +. These are 1st known N American cases of H5N1 in MAMMALS👉wild foxes died in Holland in May ‘21.
7/“Tens of 1000s of birds must have died-maybe hundreds of 1000s..this breeding season will have been a disaster. Many will have died on remote islands”-ornithologist Mark Avery calls deaths so far an “international disaster-it looks very serious-I fear this is just the start.”
7/ #UK #Scotland #Seabirds
“H5N1 has swept through the world’s largest northern gannet colony. Bass Rock, an island off the coast of Scotland, is home to> 150,000 breeding gannets. Stark images between Sept 2020 & June 2022 show drastic change in # nesting”
“H5N1 has swept through the world’s largest northern gannet colony. Bass Rock, an island off the coast of Scotland, is home to> 150,000 breeding gannets. Stark images between Sept 2020 & June 2022 show drastic change in # nesting”
8/“Tens of 1000s must have died, maybe hundreds of 1000s-this breeding season will have been a disaster. Many will die on remote islands”-ornithologist Mark Avery describes deaths so far as an👉international disaster. “..it looks very serious & I fear this is just the start.”
9/“The world population of great skua is about 16,000 -early research on the impact of H5N1 suggests that between 64%-85% of the population at some sites has died,mainly in Shetland, Orkney and the Outer Hebrides.”
10/“10% of France’s breeding population of sandwich terns is believed to have died👉in the space of a week,w/high casualties also reported in Holland. On Coquet Island..the UK’s only colony for breeding roseate terns, w/~150 breeding pairs, more than 2/3 of chicks have died.”
11/ “…reports of #H5N1 impact on the wild wintering populations,including the death of more than 1/3 of the Svalbard barnacle goose pop on the Solway Firth (16,500 out of a total pop of 43,000). There were reports of birds👉 “falling from the sky in distress”. #ClimateCrisis
12/“Fragmented bird populations are most at risk. There are about 8,000 Dalmatian pelicans left in the world, & more than 2,000 have already died from bird flu. “We’re facing an event of mass #extinction of animals. Entire populations are affected by this virus.” @iconickevin
13/ “Early observations suggested~50% of birds infected w/H5N1 die,but Prof Diana Bell..who studied H5N1 in 2007, says the figure ismore like👉100%. “[Any bird] infected is not going to survive, unless H5N1 has attenuated in virulence [since then],but I don’t think so.” MORE
14/ #NOAA declares Unusual Outbreak Event in seals in Maine due to H5N1.
fisheries.noaa.gov/feature-story/…
fisheries.noaa.gov/feature-story/…
15/ ‼️Note that blue dots represent H5N1 cases in MAMMALS. Unrelated to map-in the past @ 2004 tigers & leopards accidentally fed infected chicken have become infected.) 
Actually Unusual Mortality Event.
16/wildlife.ca.gov/News/avian-inf…
“feeding/providing water to wild birds is discouraged, esp [near]backyard poultry/other captive birds i.e.ducks, geese, parrots. Increased # s of wild birds at feeders & bird baths may lead to contamination of local environment,aiding H5N1 transmission
“feeding/providing water to wild birds is discouraged, esp [near]backyard poultry/other captive birds i.e.ducks, geese, parrots. Increased # s of wild birds at feeders & bird baths may lead to contamination of local environment,aiding H5N1 transmission
17/H5N1 “poses elevated risk to MAMMALS that consume those birds. At least 7 US states found H5N1 in red fox kits-in whom it’s particularly lethal-2 bobcats in WI-a coyote pup in MI,skunks in Canada tested + & foxes,otters,a lynx,a polecat & a badger in EU
nytimes.com/2022/06/18/hea…
nytimes.com/2022/06/18/hea…
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