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Bird Flu is Now a Major Threat to Marine Life

The Maritime Executive 23 May 2024
A deadly strain of avian influenza is spreading across the global ocean ... Where is it? ... How is it affecting ocean wildlife? ... How bad could it get? ... In the UK, there has been a 70% reduction of northern gannets at their key breeding ground of Bass Rock.
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The easy new way to explore this secret corner of the UK

The Times/The Sunday Times 17 May 2024
Offshore lours Bass Rock, a fist of white stone; this is where David Attenborough dropped in on 150,000 gannets, the world’s largest colony, in his Wild Isles series ... It’s cycling for gannets.Advertisement.
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Feeding frenzies and resurgent glowworms among UK wildlife highlights in 2023

The Observer 29 Dec 2023
Although there were signs of some birds showing immunity to avian flu – with gannets on Bass Rock, Scotland, which have black instead of pale blue irises, more likely to have survived the virus – ...
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Avian influenza has killed millions of seabirds around the world: Antarctica could be next

Phys Dot Org 25 Dec 2023
Antarctica is often imagined as the last untouched wilderness ... Avian influenza has devastated seabird populations around the world, including a 70% reduction of northern gannets on Bass Rock in the United Kingdom ... Bird flu moving further south ... ....
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When people move out, wildlife moves in: 10 abandoned places reclaimed by nature

The Press Enterprise 21 Nov 2023
The island of Boreray, and surrounding sea stacks, host the world’s largest colony of gannets, and all Soay sheep in the world are descended from those found on Soay island. Stack Rock Fort, Wales.
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Bird flu takes toll on Bass Rock gannet colony

The Times/The Sunday Times 26 Oct 2023
A count carried out by researchers in June showed that the gannet population on Bass Rock, an island in the Firth of Forth, has fallen from 75,000 sites to about 55,000, down 25-30 per cent since the ...
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Some seabirds developing immunity to avian influenza, study shows

London Evening Standard 20 Oct 2023
A major research consortium carried out a small study on northern gannet and shag seabirds on Bass Rock, off the coast of Scotland ... .
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Wild birds gain immunity to avian flu in ‘encouraging sign’ amid deadly outbreak

The Observer 20 Oct 2023
They took blood samples of northern gannets on Scotland’s Bass Rock – which were hit hard by avian flu in 2022 – and found that 30% of them had antibodies ... – Bass Rock is the world’s largest colony.
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Hands off our guga hunt, wind farm developer is told

The Times/The Sunday Times 13 Oct 2023
The proposed Berwick Bank wind farm in the Firth of Forth, which is located near the largest gannet colony on Bass Rock, could lead to the death or displacement of almost 200 birds.Sponsored.
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Seven of the UK’s best beach cafés

The Times/The Sunday Times 05 Sep 2023
Forget greasy chips and candyfloss. These venues serve everything from cockles to cocktails, lollies to lobster ... 2 ... 3 ... Rising out of the Firth of Forth nearby, the unmistakable dome of Bass Rock is home to the world’s largest colony of northern gannets ... .
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Why you should never touch a dead or dying bird

The Irish Times 26 Aug 2023
Interestingly, recent studies on antibodies in blood samples taken from gannets on Bass Rock in Scotland showed that some can survive infection – albeit with large black irises rather than the full blue ones of unaffected gannets.
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Edinburgh beyond the fringe: the best day trips from the city by train

The Observer 31 Jul 2023
Bass Rock supports the world’s largest colony of northern gannets – more than 150,000 at the peak of the season ... Almost every square foot of the vertiginous rock, as well as the air around it, is thick with gannets.
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A dead bird is not a pretty sight. I'd steeled myself for the carcasses but ...

The Daily Mail 30 Jul 2023
Gannets ... Some gannets' eye colour had gone from pale blue to black ... That discovery was made not so far away by scientists on the Bass Rock, the home of the largest Northern gannet colony in the world.
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Avian flu may have killed millions of birds globally as outbreak ravages South America

The Observer 23 Jul 2023
More than 11,000 gannets were killed by bird flu last summer in Scotland but this year the world’s largest colony of northern gannets – the Bass Rock in the Firth of Forth – is showing signs of recovery.
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‘The coast is vast and the skies overwhelming’: readers’ choose their favourite UK coastlines

The Observer 21 Jul 2023
Walk the spectacular stretch from the King’s Cave car park, near Machrie, to Blackwaterfoot and spot sea otters hunting for crabs, seals basking on the rocks and gannets nose-diving into the clear blue waters.

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