35 h. ago Gardeners issued brutal bird feed warning over scraps falling on lawns

Gardeners are warned that leaving uneaten bird feed in the garden can spread fatal diseases to the wildlife - with leftovers doing more harm than good

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53 h. ago Gardeners warned over using £10 supermarket bird feed by expert

Cheap bird seed mixes may be doing more harm than good, one gardener has warned, as they lack nutrition and often go untouched by garden birds

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4 d. ago Warning to anyone with a bird feeder in their garden making dangerous mistake

The sound of birdsong is one of the joys of the season, but bird feeders can attract more than just our small feathered friends - they also welcome disease and vermin...

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7 d. ago Drivers issued warning over 'dangerous' mistake with pet that could get you 'nine points'

You could also be slapped with a hefty £5,000 fine for this

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2 w. ago Outrage as pensioner forced to pay £2,000 and blamed for causing rat infestation

The grandad, 76, was accused of 'ignoring' the council's warning to stop feeding birds - the daughter of the 'Bird Man of Hartlepool' claims the rat infestation was not his fault

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2 w. ago Bird flu warning as milk trend in UK could be 'transmission route' for virus

A type of milk consumed in the UK could be a "tenable transmission route" for bird flu, health officials warn

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3 w. ago Bird flu warning as UK health boss says virus has 'pandemic potential'

The UKHSA director warns the circulating strain of bird flu has the potential to become a pandemic after a case of bird flu in sheep was confirmed

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3 w. ago Alert as UK health chiefs warn bird flu could trigger 'next pandemic'

Senior British health officials have said bird flu has shown a noted change within just the past three to four years compared to when the pathogen first emerged in the mid 1990s.

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3 w. ago Bird flu 'pandemic' warning as UK health boss says virus has dangerous 'potential'

Richard Peabody, director of epidemic and emerging infections at the UK Health Security Agency, has warned that bird flu has the potential to become a 'future pandemic'

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3 w. ago Government on high alert as deadly bird flu jumps species AGAIN

The case was identified in Yorkshire during routine surveillance on a premises where avian influenza had been confirmed in captive birds.

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3 w. ago Bird flu warning issued as case found in single sheep for the first time ever

The Government confirmed influenza of avian origin (H5N1) was found on a farm in the UK

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3 w. ago Warning for farmers after first case of bird flu discovered in a sheep

The single case of avian influenza was found in a sheep on a farm in Yorkshire where the disease had been confirmed in poultry.

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3 w. ago Potentially deadly bird flu jumps species as 'remain vigilant' warning issued

Food safety experts have also explained recommendations for eating poultry and eggs

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3 w. ago Urgent warning issued as deadly bird flu 'evolving too fast for vaccines to keep up'

Wild birds, poultry, cattle and even farmworkers in the United States have already caught the virus, urging scientists to work on vaccinations to protect human health

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3 w. ago First evidence of microplastic buildup in bird lungs found in new study

Researchers describe widespread contamination of plastics in the bodies of more than 50 different bird speciesA new study has provided the first evidence that microplastics are accumulating in bird lungs.Birds have long been used to give early warnings of environmental risks. The absence of birdsong was used in the evocative title of Rachel Carson’s 1962 book Silent Spring, and for more than a century miners carried caged canaries to warn of carbon monoxide – a practice that ended in UK coalmines only in 1996. Continue reading...

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