Legal orders requiring poultry to be kept in secure buildings remain in place despite the declaration of ‘disease freedom’ ...

Ireland is now free from highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI), or bird flu, according to Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine Martin Heydon. The minister said that the World Organisation ...

PARIS (Reuters) -Ireland reported an outbreak of highly pathogenic H5N1 bird flu on a turkey farm in the eastern part of the country, the World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH) said on Wednesday, ...

A blackcap is about the size of a robin. They can be very aggressive at a bird table. Males have a neat jet-black cap and a cold brown-grey body with a pale throat, vent, and undertail coverts.

For a few weeks every year coming into the colder weather, the skies over Ireland are extraordinarily busy, writes Jack ...

Chiffchaffs of all ages have green-grey upperparts, their underside is light yellow-grey, and they have a thin, dark eye stripe with a narrow, dull supercilium ('eyebrow') ...

DUBLIN (Reuters) -Ireland on Wednesday imposed a mandatory country-wide housing order for poultry and captive birds, effective from November. 10, following the first outbreak of highly pathogenic H5N1 ...

A rare bird which was thought to have all-but vanished from Northern Ireland has turned up... behind a bin on Belfast's ...