The virus first appeared in the UK in 2020 and since, researchers have seen an increase in decline in blackbirds. Not only are they affected by the disease, but blackbirds are also non-migrating ...

Gardeners are being urged to help save blackbirds as a deadly virus is wiping them out across the UK. The New Scientist has reported that the Usutu virus, which originated in South Africa in 1959 and ...

London saw a 50 per cent decline in the capital's Blackbird population in 2020 Numbers recovered but are still around 32 per cent lower now than in 2019 Native mosquitoes can transmit Usutu virus ...

Tricolored blackbirds form the largest colonies of any North American ... tricolors are vulnerable to high levels of predation. The species has been in decline ever since widespread land conversion ...

Anyone who has blackbirds in their garden is being warned they are being killed by a deadly virus and need help. The New Scientist reported in an article today that blackbird numbers have fallen ...

In some parts of the country, most notably London, blackbird populations have dropped by more than 40 per cent since 2018. “We first noticed the decline at the same time as Usutu popped up ...

A summer rusty blackbird is similar ... Breeding Bird Survey has detected a general decline in this species, at a rate of 2.1 percent per year.