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The Defence Infrastructure Organisation (DIO) has created an ideal ‘dance floor’ for a mating display by the endangered black grouse.
How to manage game birds during a bird flu (avian influenza) outbreak.
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 disturb, kill or take protected birds or their eggs for science, education or conservation and find out how to report your actions.
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.
Find out how to use nets or traps to catch birds in food premises and safely release them within the terms of your licence.
How to register to keep captive schedule 4 birds, when to ring them and when to microchip them.
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.
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.
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.
Competent authorities must help to protect wild bird habitats on land and at sea, and avoid pollution to protect wild bird populations.
How and when you must register as a bird keeper (including for any birds you keep as pets).
Get a licence to catch certain birds trapped on food premises.
Find out how to sell wild birds and animals legally and safely, and what licences you need to get.
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.
Find out how to control wild geese populations using egg oiling or by round-up and culling, if you’re permitted to do so under the terms of your licence.
What you must do to avoid harming birds and when you’ll need a licence.
Know which licence or certificate you must have to restrain, stun or kill animals which are not for human consumption, and how to carry out these operations.
How to assess a planning application when there are wild birds on or near a proposed development site.
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