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Standing advice for local planning authorities, developers and ecologists for assessing the impacts of wind farms on wild birds.
Licences for activities affecting birds.
What counts as a statutory nuisance and how councils can deal with complaints by issuing an abatement notice.
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 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.
Guidance on the methods that can be used to help manage wild birds like geese, gulls and pigeons without a licence.
Find out how you could do the SFI actions for farmland wildlife on improved grassland.
Competent authorities must help to protect wild bird habitats on land and at sea, and avoid pollution to protect wild bird populations.
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.
Find bird flu disease control zones and the rules you must follow in each zone.
Apply for a licence to kill or take fish-eating birds causing significant damage to a fishery and find out how to report your actions.
How councils deal with complaints about noise at night, intruder alarms, construction noise and loudspeakers in the street.
Advises on how planning can manage potential noise impacts in new development.
What counts as a bird gathering, and how to notify the Animal and Plant Health Agency.
Apply for a licence to disturb protected species of wild birds for photography and find out how to report your actions.
How councils assess and deal with nuisance odours from industrial, trade and business premises.
Common causes of artificial light nuisance, lights that are exempt and how councils can assess light.
Find out how you could do the SFI actions for integrated pest management.
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