Archive: November 2025

In August 2024, the Dutch Wildlife Health Centre (DWHC) received the first reports of

Ten years ago, mass bird deaths due to bird flu were still an unknown phenomenon in the Netherlands, but nowadays we are regularly confronted with outbreaks of this disease among wild birds. In recent weeks, things have been seriously bad again. After images reached us from Germany of large numbers of sick and

Since early October, the DWHC has been receiving reports of increased mortality and abnormal behavior among wild birds in the north of the Netherlands. Birds from across the country have been sent by the DWHC to the WBVR to test for bird flu.