Swans and bird flu

Posted by on Feb 20, 2006 in updates | 2 comments While swans are reportedly dying in parts of Europe, victim of the much feared H5N1 virus strain, they were very much in evidence at the Wetland and Wildfowl Trust in Welney yesterday where scores of visitors watched them being fed. I last went to the reserve in December with my MEP Robert Sturdy, who is a rapporteur on bird flu for the European Parliament, and we met Peter Cranswick, who is...
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