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Find out how to use nets or traps to catch birds in food premises and safely release them within the terms of your licence.
Competent authorities must help to protect wild bird habitats on land and at sea, and avoid pollution to protect wild bird populations.
How to assess a planning application when there are wild birds on or near a proposed development site.
Apply to control wild birds, including the lesser black-backed gull and herring gull, to conserve plants and animals or protect public health and safety.
Virus surveillance in wild birds could offer an early warning system that would lead to effective influenza control in poultry units
The Defence Infrastructure Organisation (DIO) has created an ideal ‘dance floor’ for a mating display by the endangered black grouse.
How to deal with wild birds causing a health or safety issue, or a problem on your farm or fishery and when you need a licence.
Get a general licence to sell captive bred live wild birds.
This study investigated the frequency of NDV in both non-migratory and birds migrating on the Black Sea-Mediterranean flyway
How to register to keep captive schedule 4 birds, when to ring them and when to microchip them.
Get a licence to catch certain birds trapped on food premises.
How to manage racing pigeons, birds of prey and other captive birds during a bird flu (avian influenza) outbreak.
Find out what you need to do to keep wild birds or animals legally and safely, including when you need a licence and how to get one.
What you must do to avoid harming birds and when you’ll need a licence.
How to dispose of dead wild birds or ask for them to be removed.
Biosecurity and hygiene standards to keep birds safe from bird flu (avian influenza).
Apply to control wild birds for air safety, conservation, public health and safety or to prevent disease or agricultural damage.
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