It followed an update by council officers who admitted that efforts to clear the popular area had only resulted in more pigeons taking up residence amid complaints that hundreds of birds were ...

GURTEEN ACTIVE AGE Gurteen Active Age Group meet every Monday at 2 p.m. in the Coleman Music Centre for an hour or so. New members are encouraged and most welcome. Activities are arranged and outings ...

Stormont’s Agriculture Minister has insisted his department “took swift action” over bird flu in Northern Ireland. Housing measures for birds and poultry to halt the spread of Avian ...

You can practice your observation skills by describing and sketching birds that are easy to find and watch such as birds in your garden or at ... by BirdWatch Ireland, and another good one is ...

The time of year you see a bird can be important. Many of the birds we see in Ireland are migrants, either coming here to breed, such as the swallow; for the non-breeding time of the year ...

A third flock of Northern Ireland poultry has been culled in a bid to combat the spread of avian flu - taking the tally so ...

Sixteen thousand birds are to be culled as another case of suspected bird flu is investigated in a commercial poultry flock in Northern Ireland. Stormont's Agriculture department confirmed test ...

his counterpart in Northern Ireland, where a similar order is due to take effect at the same time on February 17th. It comes after a 3km “captive bird temporary control zone” was established ...

All bird keepers in Northern Ireland are required to keep their birds indoors from Monday. The order from the Department of Agriculture, Environment, and Rural Affairs (Daera) is designed to stop ...

A housing order has come into effect from today for poultry flocks and captive birds to protect them from avian influenza. It follows five detections of the virus - more commonly known as bird flu ...

A suspected case of bird flu was discovered at a commercial poultry unit in Northern Ireland, meaning 64,000 birds are set to be slaughtered. A Temporary Control Zone, known as TCZ, has been ...

Another 32,000 birds are to be culled in Co Tyrone after the latest positive case of avian flu at a commercial poultry premises. Preliminary tests at the premises near Cookstown indicate the ...