{"id":4073,"date":"2023-07-11T13:04:17","date_gmt":"2023-07-11T18:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=4073"},"modified":"2023-07-11T13:39:32","modified_gmt":"2023-07-11T18:39:32","slug":"scotland-more-than-550-dead-birds-removed-from-beaches-in-two-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2023\/07\/11\/scotland-more-than-550-dead-birds-removed-from-beaches-in-two-days\/","title":{"rendered":"Scotland: More than 550 dead birds removed from beaches in two days"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.stv.tv\/north\/hundreds-more-dead-birds-removed-from-aberdeenshire-beaches-in-stonehaven-and-cruden-bay-amid-avian-flu-surge\">STV News<\/a> Hundreds more carcasses have been found of the Aberdeenshire coast. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Hundreds more dead birds have been removed from beaches in Aberdeenshire amid an \u201cunprecedented\u201d rise in avian flu cases.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Monday, a total of 330 birds were removed from Stonehaven beach as Aberdeenshire Council confirmed teams are working to clear carcasses from shores with a warning to the public to avoid touching dead or dying birds who may wash up on beaches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The council told STV News on Tuesday that a further 100 carcasses were removed from Stonehaven beach as well as 126 from Cruden Bay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The local authority warned that people should be aware that there will \u201cinevitably\u201d be more birds washed ashore with each tide so beaches may not be cleared entirely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A NatureScot spokesperson said: \u201cWe are concerned about the unprecedented outbreak of avian flu over the last two years and continue to work with partners through the Scottish Task Force to ensure that we have the correct monitoring and best advice for land managers in place. Testing is continuing.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>STV News Hundreds more carcasses have been found of the Aberdeenshire coast. Hundreds more dead birds have been removed from beaches in Aberdeenshire amid an \u201cunprecedented\u201d rise in avian flu cases. On Monday, a total of 330 birds were removed from Stonehaven beach as Aberdeenshire Council confirmed teams are working to clear carcasses from shores [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":4074,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-avian-influenza"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Screenshot-2023-07-11-at-14.02.57.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4073"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4075,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4073\/revisions\/4075"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}