Avian influenza

Guidance and services

• Avian influenza (bird flu)
• Avian influenza (bird flu): current restrictions
• Avian influenza (bird flu) disease map
• Revoked avian influenza (bird flu) restrictions: October 2022 to September 2023
• Report dead wild birds
• Remove and dispose of dead wild birds
• Avian influenza (bird flu): advice for keepers of small flocks
• Avian influenza (bird flu): help protect your birds poster
• Biosecurity
• Biosecurity and preventing disease in poultry and kept birds
• Mitigation Strategy for Avian Influenza in Wild Birds in England and Wales
• Licencing for protection and surveillance zones
• Declaration of Avian Influenza Protection Zone, Surveillance Zone: Near Arthog, Gwynedd, Wales
• How to prepare for when your birds can be let outside again
• Bird gatherings: general licence for poultry
• Revoked avian influenza (bird flu) restrictions: October 2021 to September 2022
• Revoked avian influenza (bird flu) restrictions: October 2020 to September 2021

Policy and background Includes strategy, reports, projects and assessments.

• Bird gatherings: general licence for captive birds
  Policy and strategy
• Notifiable Avian Disease Control Strategy for Great Britain
  Policy and strategy
• General licence for the movement of samples for salmonella testing
  Policy and strategy
• General licence for the movement of poultry carcases for disposal from premises in a Protection Zone (EXD339(HPAI)(GB))
  Policy and strategy
• General licence for the movement of carcasses, samples, faeces and faecal samples
  Policy and strategy
• General licence for the movement of poultry meat from poultry originating in a protection zone or originating from an area that subsequently becomes a protection zone (EXD249(HPAI)(EW))
  Policy and strategy
• General licence for the movement of table eggs (EXD243(AI)(GB))
  Policy and strategy
• General Licence for the movement of table eggs in Scotland, England and Wales
  Policy and strategy
• General licence for the removal of the meat mark applied to certain poultry meat (EXD264(HPAI)(EW))
  Policy and strategy
• General licence for the movement of poultry by-products and hatching eggs for disposal (EXD389(HPAI)(GB))
  Policy and strategy
• General licence for the Movement of Hatching Eggs from a Premises in a Protection Zone or Surveillance Zone to a Designated Premises for Use for Scientific, Diagnostic or Pharmaceutical Purposes (EXD539(HPAI)(GB))
  Policy and strategy
• General licence for the movement of samples taken from carcases and faeces from live poultry or other captive birds from premises in the protection or surveillance zone to a laboratory or veterinary surgery for investigation (EXD415(HPAI)(GB))
  Policy and strategy
• General licence for the movement of mammals from or to premises in the Protection or Surveillance Zone (EXD247(HPAI)(EW))
  Policy and strategy
• General licence: multiple movements of table eggs from a premises in a Free Area to an Egg Processing Plant in a Protection Zone or Surveillance Zone
  Policy and strategy
• General Licence for the Spreading on Premises or Movement of used Poultry Litter, Poultry Manure and Poultry Slurry
  Policy and strategy