Risks to birds

Disease

Infectious diseases, parasites, and pathogens that can cause illness, death, or population decline in wild birds. Includes H5 bird flu (highly pathogenic avian influenza / HPAI), Psittacine Beak and Feather Disease (PBFD), and other emerging or endemic conditions.

Two Crested Terns stand in the shallow water, looking to the right of the screen. Their bills are yellow, and their bodies are mostly white with a black crest and grey wings.

Greater Crested Tern

Scientific name Thalasseus bergii
Bird type Seabirds

Fairy Tern catching a fish

Fairy Tern

Scientific name Sternula nereis
Bird type Beach-nesting Birds, Threatened species

Black Swan on a smooth lake with reeds to in the background

Black Swan

Scientific name Cygnus atratus
Bird type Waterbirds

Whiskered Tern flying right, wings down, black background

Whiskered Tern

Scientific name Chlidonias hybrida
Bird type Waterbirds

Close up of two gannets, colours of other gannets in the background. One gannet has its head reasting over the head of the other, the lower gannets bill nuzzling the higher gannets neck.

Australasian Gannet

Scientific name Morus serrator
Bird type Seabirds

Pelican floating on a lake

Australian Pelican

Scientific name Pelecanus conspicillatus
Bird type Waterbirds

Plumed whistling duck standing on log, looking and facing left. Two more birds blurred in background. Foreground bird is mostly mottled shades of brown, pinkish legs with distinctive white plumes coming from underbelly, each white plume feather has a distinctive black border around it.

Plumed Whistling-Duck

Scientific name Dendrocygna eytoni
Bird type Waterbirds

Silver Gull

Scientific name Larus novaehollandiae
Bird type Seabirds