Scottish wild bird high pathogenicity: avian influenza response plan

Footnotes

1 Exotic animal disease contingency framework plan: August 2022 - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)

2 Notifiable avian disease control strategy for Great Britain - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

3 Notifiable avian disease control strategy - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

4 The Avian Influenza (H5N1 in Wild Birds) (Scotland) Order 2007 (legislation.gov.uk)

5 HAIRS risk assessment: avian influenza A(H5N1) in non-avian UK wildlife - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

6 Key:

Biosecurity: appropriate measures must be put in place for a range of measures, including people entering or leaving premises where poultry or other captive birds are kept (other than slaughterhouses).

Ban on bird gatherings: bird gatherings will not be permitted within the zone.

Ban on the release of game birds: the release of game birds will not be permitted within the zone.

Ban on hunting/taking of wild birds: the hunting of wild birds or the taking of them from the wild will be banned unless licensed.

7 Clinical signs - Avian influenza (bird flu): how to spot and report the disease - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)

8 Clinical signs - Avian influenza (bird flu): how to spot and report the disease - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)

9 NatureScot Scientific Advisory Committee Sub-Group on Avian Influenza Report on the H5N1 outbreak in wild birds 2020-2023 | NatureScot

10 Universities of Edinburgh, Essex, St Andrews, Bristol, Aberystwyth, Liverpool

11 e.g., BTO, RSPB, Natural England, NatureScot etc

12 wild-bird-target-species-for-passive-surveillance.pdf (izsvenezie.com)

13 The status of our bird populations

14 The status of the UK’s breeding seabirds: an addendum to the fifth Birds of Conservation Concern in the United Kingdom, Channel Islands and Isle of Man and second IUCN Red List assessment of extinction risk for Great Britain

15 Review of the potential of seabird colony monitoring to inform monitoring programmes for consented offshore wind farm projects (www.bto.org)

16 NatureScot Scientific Advisory Committee Sub-Group on Avian Influenza Report on the H5N1 outbreak in wild birds 2020-2023 | NatureScot

17 National Nature Reserve (NNR)

18 Local Nature Reserve (LNR)

19 NatureScot Scientific Advisory Committee Sub-Group on Avian Influenza Report on the H5N1 outbreak in wild birds 2020-2023 | NatureScot