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got to say they're being quite calm about it this time, when there was the first outbreak I was told all sorts of crap by the French such as 'you won't be able to go birding/it's dangerous to go birding/we'll have to cull all the birds/the birds are evil for spreading disease etc etc. This time all I've seen on the news is that pigeon racing has been stopped and poultry moved indoors, though with the weather I think the chickens were already indoors by choice!
got to say they're being quite calm about it this time, when there was the first outbreak I was told all sorts of crap by the French such as 'you won't be able to go birding/it's dangerous to go birding/we'll have to cull all the birds/the birds are evil for spreading disease etc etc. This time all I've seen on the news is that pigeon racing has been stopped and poultry moved indoors, though with the weather I think the chickens were already indoors by choice!
Nick do you know what sp of swan they are? There's pic of Mute on the link but knowing the BBC's tendancy to pull the nearest bird to match their story from the archives .....! Just wondered whether they've traced the source of outbreak this time (wasn't it a nearby domestic poultry farm last time) - original 'panic' could have been over the possibility of migratory vectors, perhaps this has now been ruled out in France?