GUWAHATI The number of avian species at a major wetland in north-eastern Assam declined by almost 72% in 27 years, a study has revealed. Another survey carried out between April 2017 and March 2018 recorded 120 species of birds apart from 133 species of macrophytes, 68 species of fish, and seven species of aquatic ferns. The study listed a few …
Last Saturday, as night fell, a gaggle of volunteers and scientists gathered along the rocky coastline of Victoria's Phillip Island. With head torches at the ready, Dr Wille and her crew were one of many surveillance groups around Australia who test flocks for avian influenza, with an eye out for a particularly deadly type. The National Avian Influenza Wild Bird …
The Amur falcon, the world’s longest travelling migratory bird, stopped over 21 countries during its annual journey covering 22,000 km in a year, from eastern Asia all the way to Southern Africa and back, a report by the Wildlife Institute of India revealed. The 85-page report, which highlights the new findings from the satellite tracking of the Amur falcon from …
Shimla: The samples of the dead poultry birds found dumped in Himachal Pradesh’s Solan district earlier this month have tested positive for bird flu, state animal husbandry minister Virender Kanwar said on Monday. In a statement, Kanwar stated that a Bhopal laboratory detected the H5N8 strain of Avian Influenza in the dead birds which were found dumped beside the Chandigarh-Solan …
Amid the coronavirus pandemic, another scare has come to haunt the country. Prem Singh Patel told India Today TV, “Samples of dead crows have been sent to the state lab in Bhopal and bird flu virus has been confirmed in samples sent from Indore and Mandsaur.” While no cases of poultry birds being affected have been reported yet, instructions have …
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