Images from the Bass Rock gannet colony have amazingly revealed how the eyes of bird flu survivors have turned black
. The landmark off the coast of North Berwick, home to 150,000 birds in peak season, has been hammered by avian influenza in recent years.
A recent study involving the RSPB, Glasgow, Edinburgh and Heriot-Watt universities, the Animal and Plant Health Agency and the Scottish Seabird Centre made the link between bird flu survival and black irises Top news stories today Northern Gannets and Great Skuas have been the two Scots species most devastated by bird flu, with thousands of dead seabirds washing on our coasts. The study found gannets can survive and recover from the virus. But on the Bass Rock, adult survival between 2021 and 2022 was 42 per cent lower than average.
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