There have been at least 50,000 wild bird deaths in the UK since the H5N1 bird flu outbreak in October 2021

Recorded bird deaths

Scotland 36,500

England 7,300

Wales 5,000

Northern Ireland 550

Selected locations

Farne Islands

6,002 deaths among various species including guillemots, kittiwakes, sandwich terns and puffins

Inverness

Edinburgh

Glasgow

Coquet Island

1,377 deaths among various species including arctic terns, common terns, black-headed gulls and kittiwakes

Newcastle

Solway Firth

13,200

Svalbard barnacle

geese

Manchester

London

Bristol

Grassholm

5,000 northern

gannets

Recorded bird deaths

Selected locations

Scotland 36,500

Farne Islands

6,002 deaths among various species including guillemots, kittiwakes, sandwich terns and puffins

Inverness

England 7,300

Edinburgh

Glasgow

Coquet Island

1,377 deaths among various species including arctic terns, common terns, black-headed gulls and kittiwakes

Newcastle

Wales 5,000

Solway Firth

13,200

Svalbard barnacle

geese

Manchester

Northern Ireland 550

London

Bristol

Grassholm

5,000 northern

gannets