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Cunningham, Emma JA, Gamble, Amandine, Hart, Tom, Humphreys, Elizabeth M, Philip, Emma, Tyler, Glen and Wood, Matt J. 
ORCID: 0000-0003-0920-8396
(2022)
The incursion of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) into North Atlantic
seabird populations: an interim report from the 15th International Seabird
Group conference.
Seabird, 34.
pp. 67-73.
doi:10.61350/sbj.34.67
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Abstract
The H5N1 Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) outbreak devastated populations of North Atlantic seabirds in the 2022 breeding season. Positive cases of HPAI in seabirds were previously reported in Great Skuas Stercorarius skua colonies in the 2021 breeding season (Banyard et al. 2022). During the 2022 breeding season, major outbreaks were sequentially reported in an increasing number of species and spread generally north to south across the UK and beyond. To date 15 breeding seabird species have tested positive in Scotland and over 20,500 birds have been reported dead (NatureScot, unpublished data). By September 2022, more than 2,600 Great Skuas had died: 13% of the UK population and 8% of the world population (NatureScot, unpublished data), 1,400 on Foula, Shetland alone (Camphuysen & Gear 2022). These figures are derived mostly from colony counts and will be a substantial underestimate of total mortality, not accounting for birds lost at sea or remote locations with limited reporting. In response to this unfolding situation, a workshop was convened in August 2022, at the 15th International Seabird Group Conference in Cork, to bring together the seabird community (researchers, ringers, volunteers, site managers, non-government organisations and policy makers) and infectious disease experts to share knowledge and experiences and recommend positive future actions. This report focusses on three key considerations addressed by the workshop, and will be followed by a full open-access report on the EcoEvoRxiv repository. All six presentations can be viewed online (Gamble et al. 2022). The views expressed here reflect the wider discussion expressed by the seabird community in the workshop that followed the presentations and should not be associated with any individual author.
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| Article Type: | Article |
| Additional Information: | The full article is freely available from the publisher link below. |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Seabirds; Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI); North Atlantic |
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| Subjects: | Q Science > QL Zoology Q Science > QL Zoology > QL605 Chordates. Vertebrates > QL671-699 Birds S Agriculture > SF Animal culture > SF 951 Diseases of special classes of animals |
| Divisions: | Schools and Research Institutes > School of Education and Science |
| Research Priority Areas: | Place, Environment and Community |
| Depositing User: | Matt Wood |
| Date Deposited: | 10 Nov 2022 14:42 |
| Last Modified: | 13 Dec 2023 14:51 |
| URI: | https://eprints.glos.ac.uk/id/eprint/11845 |
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