Wildlife and disease
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Welcome to the Dutch Wildlife Health Centre

Reporting guide for suspected bird flu

Follow the updates on bird flu tests in 2025 per month here.

DWHC ‘focus species’ of 2025: Peregrine Falcon and Common Kestrel

Common Kestrels and Peregrine falcons are birds of prey that are high up in the food chain. By eating infected prey animals, they can also become infected with diseases themselves. That is why examining these birds can tell us something about the diseases that are present in an area.

Found a dead common kestrel or peregrine falcon? Report them via our online form!

Picture Peregrine Falcon (left): Vincent van Zalingepicture Common Kestrel (right): Roy Slaterus (Sovon)

DWHC

On this website you will find information about diseases in wild animals in the Netherlands and, in the case of notable cases, abroad. The information can be found both by disease and by species.

To report a dead wild animal, you can use the reporting form. Our FAQ include topics such as which dead animals to report for examination at DWHC, and when a dead animal will be collected and examined.

Please keep reporting!

It is very important that you keep reporting dead wild animals, even if the animals cannot be collected. This helps us to maintain insight into the mortality among wild animals.

NB: The task of cleaning up dead animals does not lie with the DWHC, click here to see who is responsible for cleaning up dead animals.

News

Is mortality among wild birds caused by bird flu increasing again?

To the relief of many, reports of bird flu among wild birds in the Netherlands remained relatively low this past spring. Although the highly pathogenic H5N1 virus had not completely disappeared, increased mortality from this virus did not occur among the colony-breeding gulls and terns that had been severely
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Germany: African swine fever infection found in new area

On June 14th, the German authorities confirmed an African swine fever infection. African swine fever (ASF) is a notifiable disease caused by the ASF virus, which can cause serious illness in pigs. Last weekend, an ASF-infected dead wild boar was found approximately 150 km from the Dutch border, close to the
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