There had been no recorded cases of bird flu infecting people until an outbreak of H5N1 among poultry in Hong Kong in 1997.
Escaped eagle owls have previously been caught in Inverness in 2009 and in 2006, when an owl was seen feeding from bird tables in people's gardens.
The agency posts signs near protected areas that explain the endangered bird in hopes that people will be less likely to ignore the fencing.
The bird conservation charity invented the competition to encourage people to celebrate the island's rich bird life.
Dozens of people have contacted the line suffering from flashbacks since Derrick Bird went on the rampage on 2 June, killing 12 people.
Since 1997, when 18 people were infected with bird flu and six died, there have been numerous outbreaks.
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Plant your picnic blanket among the lunching office-workers on the Great Lawn, or swap people-watching for bird-watching along The Ramble, 37 cool acres of wooded paths and streams.
Purdham's brother Garry was one of 12 people killed by Derrick Bird last year and he considered quitting the sport then to return to the family farm.
The H5N1 bird flu can be deadly to people, but as far as scientists know, it does not easily pass from person to person by way of respiratory droplets -- yet.
Deaths apart, investors worry that widespread regional outbreaks of bird flu will make so many people unable or unwilling to work that global supply chains will be interrupted and output will fall, tipping the world into recession.
According to the World Health Organisation, bird flu has killed more than 330 people since 2003.
These kinds of hybrids are more likely to be milder because mammalian flu tends to make people less severely ill than bird flu.
More than 90 people have died of H5N1 bird flu since the disease's resurgence in December 2003 - most of them in South-East Asia.
Aventis picked canarypox, a bird virus that doesn't affect people.
England's preparations will also feature a warm-up game with Cumbria on 3 October, as a fundraiser for the family of former Workington forward Garry Purdham who was one of 12 people killed by gunman Derrick Bird earlier this year.
Mrs May's letter constituted a "supplementary" response to the committee's 2010 report into firearms control, which was prompted by the murder of 12 people in Cumbria by gunman Derrick Bird.
GlaxoSmithKline (nyse: GSK - news - people ) is working on its own bird-flu vaccine.
To this day, many people in rural Cambodia have never heard of bird flu at all.
The producers were reportedly this close to casting a couple of six-footers as Bird and Magic and filling out the cast with little people.
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The first people to cycle on the track included Alex Bird, aged nine, who suggested the name of the new youth group, and 11-year-old Lakee Sivaraya, who won the written competition: 'Why I should be the first person to cycle the circuit'.
People everywhere seem to delight in meeting this rare bird, and she greets them with real warmth.
Six people have died after being infected with the H7N9 bird flu virus, according to Chinese state media Friday.
The British declined to make Mr Bird a knight, an honour often handed out to successful people in former colonies.
Infectious diseases killed 864 people in China in February, including two of bird flu, the official Xinhua news agency reported last month.
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And then Bette Midler sang, and told us all about how much she loves birds like all The Audubon Society people, and how she feeds them filtered water in her bird bath.
Legends about its origin vary from it being a flying rock that brought the Navajo people to this area, to being the home of two huge bird monsters who occasionally swoop down from the sky and feast upon any Natives they find below.
Researchers suggested last week that some people have been infected with H5N1 without developing symptoms, possibly indicating that bird flu is less deadly than feared.
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In Asia, more than 120 people have been sickened, and 23 are dead, from a potent strain of bird flu that has the frightening markings of a potential pandemic strain.
Last year's flu-shot shortage was scary enough, but now scientists see the specter of a bona fide pandemic if the bird-flu strain known has H5N1 were to mutate into an infection that could spread to people.
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