Species: Birds

Disease general

Research results

Again dead white stork with rubber bands (04/08/2023)
A Sparrowhawk Accipiter nisus with multiple health problems (29/06/2023)
Update on mortality in black-headed gulls (23/03/2023)
Eucoleus dispar found in Eurasian sparrowhawks (07/03/2023)
Keep a look-out for Avian Influenza in black-headed gulls (20/02/2023)
Mortality in pigeons due to Canker (24/01/2023)
Update avian influenza (09/03/2021)
Highly pathogenic strain of avian influenza (bird flu) still present among wild birds. (20/01/2021)
Ongoing Usutu virus epidemic in the Netherlands (15/10/2019)
Stomach of dead white stork full of rubber bands (20/06/2019)
White stork suffering from avian-tuberculosis (28/02/2019)
Research on increased seabird mortality (11/02/2019)
Mallard choked by eating bulbs (24/01/2019)
Massive numbers of starlings are dying: no clear cause (12/12/2018)
Usutu virus: common blackbird mortalities for the third year in a row. (15/08/2018)
Magpie with ‘pigeon canker’ (02/07/2018)
A first in the Netherlands – sea eagle in the CT-scanner (23/03/2018)
Fungal respiratory infection cause of death in Mute swan (14/03/2018)
Eurasian collared doves dying from trichomonosis (11/01/2018)
Will the blackbird population survive? (12/09/2017)
Usutu virus: Rise in number of dead blackbirds being reported (24/07/2017)
Questions and answers: Usutu virus (24/07/2017)
Re-emergence of Usutu virus in wild birds in the Netherlands (08/05/2017)
Interim report: Greenfinch, DWHC focus species, 2016 (02/05/2017)
Avian pox in a sparrow (13/02/2017)
Pigeon canker (01/02/2017)
Update bird-flu in the Netherlands (23/12/2016)
Highly pathogenic H5N8 in waterbirds in the Netherlands (11/11/2016)
Hundreds of reports of dead blackbirds (19/10/2016)
Usutu virus in the Netherlands (15/09/2016)
Duck plague in Muscovy ducks (20/06/2016)
Increase in the number of birds of prey with oral inflammation (10/05/2016)
Four main causes of death in green finches (20/04/2016)
No evidence of bird flu in dead mute swans (19/04/2016)
Parasitic infection kills buzzards on the Broekpolder (29/03/2016)
Avian malaria in a pied avocet and a green finch (24/09/2015)
Greylag goose with gout (25/08/2015)
Salmonella in sparrows (15/01/2015)
Blackbirds and Usutu-virus (18/12/2012)
Poisoning in wildlife (18/01/2012)
Trichomonas infection in a stock dove (01/01/2012)
Avian tuberculosis in a great crested grebe (Podiceps cristatus) (01/01/2012)
Blackbird (Turdus merula) with avian malaria (06/09/2011)
Trichomonas sp. infection in a green finch (24/08/2009)

Overige berichten

Map of wild birds with avian influenza (20/12/2020)
Wild birds infected with highly pathogenic avian influenza (bird flu) in 2020 in the Netherlands (19/11/2020)
Highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N8 in mute swans – update (04/11/2020)
The green finch – DWHC focus species in 2016 (26/01/2016)
Mute swan: DWHC focus species 2015 (26/02/2015)
Avian influenza virus surveillance in wild birds (01/01/2014)

Publications

Effect of 2020–21 and 2021–22 Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza H5 Epidemics on Wild Birds, the Netherlands. Caliendo, V., E. Kleyheeg, N. Beerens, K.C.J. Camphuysen, R. Cazemier, A.R.W. Elbers, R.A.M. Fouchier, L. Kelder, T. Kuiken, M. Leopold, R. Slaterus, M.A.H. Spierenburg, H. van der Jeugd, H. Verdaat & J.M. Rijks (2024). Emerging Infectious Diseases. 2024;30(1):50-57. doi:10.3201/eid3001.230970.
Pathology and Pathogenesis of Eurasian Blackbirds (Turdus merula) Naturally Infected with Usutu Virus. Giuseppe Giglia, Gianfilippo Agliani, Bas B. Oude Munnink, Reina S. Sikkema, Maria Teresa Mandara, Elvio Lepri, Marja Kik, Jooske IJzer,Jolianne M. Rijks, Christine Fast, Marion P. G. Koopmans, Monique H. Verheije, Andrea Gröne, Chantal B. E. M. Reusken and Judith M. A. van den Brand (2024). Viruses 2021, 13(8). https://www.mdpi.com/1999-4915/13/8/1481
[Abstract publicatie]: Usutu Virus Infection and Plasmodium Co-Infection in Blackbirds (Turdus Merula) in the Netherlands from 2016 to 2018. Giglia G. , C.B.E.M. Reusken, F. Schaafsma, M.T. Mandara, J. Rijks,R. Sikkema, A. Gröne, M. Koopmans, M.H. Verheije, J.M.A. van den Brand (2020). Journal of Comparative Pathology, 174, p. 155. doi:10.1016/j.jcpa.2019.10.044
Genomic monitoring to understand the emergence and spread of Usutu virus in the Netherlands, 2016-2018. Oude Munnink B.B., E. Münger, D.F. Nieuwenhuijse, R. Kohl, A. van der Linden, C.M.E. Schapendonk , H. van der Jeugd, M. Kik, J.M. Rijks, C.B.E.M. Reusken & M. Koopmans. (2020). Scientific Reports, 10(1), 2798.doi:1038/s41598-020-59692-y
Widespread activity of multiple lineages of Usutu virus, western Europe, 2016. Cadar D., R. Lühken, H. van der Jeugd, M. Garigliany, U. Ziegler, M. Keller, J. Lahoreau, L. Lachmann, N. Becker, M. Kik, B.B. Oude Munnink, S. Bosch, E. Tannich, A. Linden, V. Schmidt, M.P. Koopmans, J. Rijks, D. Desmecht, M.H. Groschup, C. Reusken & J. Schmidt-Chanasit Euro Surveill. 2017;22(4):pii=30452. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2017.22.4.30452 Received:25 November 2016; Accepted:11 January 2017
Widespread Usutu virus outbreak in birds in the Netherlands, 2016. Rijks J., M. Kik, R. Slaterus , R. Foppen, A. Stroo , J. IJzer, J. Stah, A. Gröne, M. Koopmans, H. van der Jeugd, C. Reusken (2016). Euro Surveill. 2016;21(45):pii=30391. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2016.21.45.30391
No proof for usutuvirus as cause of death in songbirds in the Netherlands (fall 2012)
Reusken C, Zutt I, Kik M, Cleton N, Rijks J, Schmidt-Chanasit J, Gröne A, Koopmans M, Ijzer J.
Tijdschr Diergeneeskd. 2014 Mar 1;139(3):28-30.
Heartworm in a mute swan (Cygnus olor). de Bruijn ND, Velkers FC & Gröne A. (2009) Tijdschrift voor Diergeneeskunde. 2009 134(21):882-884. Klik hier voor meer informatie.
Obliterative endophlebitis in mute swans (Cygnus olor) caused by Trichobilharzia sp. (Digenea: Schistosomatidae) infection. van Bolhuis GH, Rijks JM, Dorrestein GM, Rudolfova J, van Dijk M & Kuiken T. (2004). Veterinary Pathology, 2004, 41(6):658-65. Klik hier voor meer informatie.