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Manage your birds’ housing and welfare when they must be kept inside because of disease outbreaks.
What you must do to avoid harming birds and when you’ll need a licence.
Biosecurity and hygiene standards to keep birds safe from bird flu (avian influenza).
Marketing standards for poultry meat producers, manufacturers, retailers and distributors.
How to assess a planning application when there are wild birds on or near a proposed development site.
Find out how to use nets or traps to catch birds in food premises and safely release them within the terms of your licence.
Natural England and partners have launched an innovative habitat restoration project designed to create safe spaces for seabirds within the Lune Estuary.
How to deal with wild birds causing a health or safety issue, or a problem on your farm or fishery and when you need a licence.
Find out how to control wild geese populations using egg oiling or by round-up and culling, if you’re permitted to do so under the terms of your licence.
Find out how you could do the SFI actions for farmland wildlife on arable and horticultural land.
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