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How to manage game birds during a bird flu (avian influenza) outbreak.
How to register to keep captive schedule 4 birds, when to ring them and when to microchip them.
Manage your birds’ housing and welfare when they must be kept inside because of disease outbreaks.
Biosecurity and hygiene standards to keep birds safe from bird flu (avian influenza).
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 counts as a bird gathering, and how to notify the Animal and Plant Health Agency.
Apply to control wild birds for air safety, conservation, public health and safety or to prevent disease or agricultural damage.
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.
How to manage racing pigeons, birds of prey and other captive birds during a bird flu (avian influenza) outbreak.
How to dispose of dead wild birds or ask for them to be removed.
The signs of bird flu and how to report it in poultry and other captive birds.
How and when you must register as a bird keeper (including for any birds you keep as pets).
Apply for a licence to sell captive birds without the correct close ring (excluding diurnal birds of prey) and find out how to report your actions.
Get a licence to catch certain birds trapped on food premises.
How to report dead wild birds.
What you must do to avoid harming birds and when you’ll need a licence.
Find out how to sell wild birds and animals legally and safely, and what licences you need to get.
Report and renewal form for the licence to disturb wild birds for science or photography.
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.
Apply for a licence to show birds for competition that are not fitted with the correct close ring and find out how to report your actions.
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