With Victoria's avian influenza outbreak over, what has been learned?
The two Victorian H7 strains of avian influenza have been successfully eradicated, but some farmers fear more frequent ...
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New Bird Flu Strain Found in U.S. Dairy Cows
THURSDAY, Feb. 6, 2025 (HealthDay News) -- A new strain of bird flu has infected dairy cows in Nevada, marking the second ...
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Birds: A hidden world of color
The beautiful hues and plumes of birds have long drawn the attention and interest of mankind. But, do we really know the true spectrum of avian coloration and vision? The answer may lie in the ...
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Indigenous knowledge helps explain bird population changes in Canada’s BC
In the summer of 1948, naturalist Charles J. Guiguet spent four months on the Goose Island Archipelago, a cluster of ...
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NSW wipes out bird flu, joining Victoria in boon for egg supply
Standard practice is to gas birds in bins with carbon dioxide ... The NSW outbreak is not connected to outbreaks in Victoria. NSW had the H7N8 strain; a small number of Victorian farms were ...
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Bird flu eradicated in Meredith, Agriculture Victoria lifts quarantine
Quarantine has been lifted on the final property hit by the bird flu in Victoria with the outbreak now eradicated after more than seven months. In 2024, Victoria experienced Australia’s largest ...
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Pest birds have taken over my garden – I get why people are fighting back
But the one that stuck with me went like this: If I was a little bird / I’d like to be a sparra / I’d sit upon Princes Bridge / and shit into the Yarra. Introduced myna birds have become ...
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Study shows bird flight paths through two proposed Bass Strait wind farms
A world-first study of birds migrating across Bass Strait has shown they traveled directly through zones earmarked for the federal government's two declared offshore wind farms. Monash University ...