{"id":595158,"date":"2025-11-26T14:27:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T14:27:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/595158\/"},"modified":"2025-11-26T14:27:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T14:27:13","slug":"lydd-farm-bird-flu-case-sparks-worry-at-dungeness-nature-reserve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/595158\/","title":{"rendered":"Lydd farm bird flu case sparks worry at Dungeness Nature Reserve"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mr Edwards said wintering waders and wildfowl numbers were &#8220;starting to build&#8221; at the reserve, which is jointly managed by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We were hit by the initial outbreak of bird flu a couple of years ago and this had a devastating impact on our breeding seabirds,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Now there&#8217;s this new threat just as our wintering species arrive.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mr Edwards said the RSPB would ask visitors to report any dead birds on the reserve to its team and not to touch any carcasses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mr Edwards said wintering waders and wildfowl numbers were &#8220;starting to build&#8221; at the reserve, which is jointly&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":533435,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[105,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-595158","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115616471073022997","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=595158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595158\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/533435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=595158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=595158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=595158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}