Bird flu had devastating impact on UK seabirds this year, NGO finds
by Danny Halpin
Dec 29, 2023
2 minutes
Bird flu has had a devastating impact on UK seabirds this year killing thousands of animals, according to The Wildlife Trusts’ annual roundup.
The last two years have seen the most severe outbreak in the UK since the virus emerged from a Chinese poultry farm in the 1990s.
Vast numbers have died, with the only nesting tern colony in at Cemlyn Nature Reserve having halved
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