Several hundred dead birds have been removed from a nature reserve as the region copes with the biggest avian flu outbreak of recent years.It is believed as many as 4,000 Barnacle geese along the Solway coast have perished in the last month due to the disease.More than 700 of the birds have now been removed from the RSPB’s reserve at Mersehead by a company that was used to dispose of animals during the foot and mouth outbreak 20 years ago.The charity’s area manager for the Scottish Lowlands and Southern Uplands, Andrew Bielinski, said: “It is not a nice situation that we are in and there is nothing we can do about it until we let it runs its course, like flu does with the human population.“Hopefully there is enough immunity among the
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