A warning has been issued after a confirmed case of bird flu was found in a wild herring gull. Devizes Town Council has urged dog owners to take care after the bird was found dead in the town with ...

The most widespread pink-legged gull in North America, the herring is common in the east and mainly a winter visitor in the west. Hybrids can be locally common (mainly in the wescat). Polytypic.

Bird flu was also found in a herring gull in Newquay earlier this month. Follow BBC Devon on X, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to [email protected].

Millions of birds pass through our yards during their bi-annual migrations, but they face an invisible killer along the way: glass windows. In the US ...

You’ve barely unwrapped your seaside chips when — whoosh — a blur of wings, a sharp beak, and a war cry like a kettle boiling ...

This is the common and familiar “sea­gull ... second-winter Herring can also suggest a first-winter ring-billed, but is much larger (not always easy to judge on lone birds) with stouter ...

The herring gull, thought to be around nine months old ... The item of rubbish appears to be a yoghurt pot, but the bird was quite a distance away when the photograph was taken, the quality is not ...

A warning has been issued after a confirmed case of bird flu was found in a wild herring gull. Devizes Town Council has urged dog owners to take care after the bird was found dead in the town with ...

"This could be on a beach, in a park, on a highway or pavement." It added the risk to human health was low. Bird flu was also found in a herring gull in Newquay earlier this month.

A herring gull in Torquay tested positive for the current spreading strain of bird flu, sparking a warning to Devon residents to remain "vigilant" around dead or sick birds. On Thursday ...