{"id":296155,"date":"2025-11-20T20:26:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T20:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/296155\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T20:26:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T20:26:07","slug":"dead-swan-in-lake-tests-positive-for-avian-flu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/296155\/","title":{"rendered":"Dead swan in lake tests positive for avian flu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A dead swan retrieved from a lake has tested positive for avian flu, a council has said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Witney Town Council said a second swan in Witney Lake, Oxfordshire, had also died since the disease was detected in the area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">In a Facebook post, the authority said it was working with &#8220;the appropriate agencies&#8221; and would &#8220;continue to carefully monitor the health of our wild birds&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;We know how much our community cares about the wildlife at the lake, and this news will be upsetting for many,&#8221; the post added.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The council urged people not to attempt to collect or touch dead birds, or birds that appear sick, but instead to report them to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/guidance\/report-dead-wild-birds\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra);elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra)<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">You can follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/england\/oxford?xtor=AL-72-%5Bpartner%5D-%5Byahoo.north.america%5D-%5Blink%5D-%5Bnews%5D-%5Bbizdev%5D-%5Bisapi%5D\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:BBC Oxfordshire;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">BBC Oxfordshire<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/bbcoxford\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Facebook;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Facebook<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bbcoxford\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:X (Twitter);elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">X (Twitter)<\/a>, or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/bbcoxford\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Instagram;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Instagram<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>More on this storyRelated Links<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A dead swan retrieved from a lake has tested positive for avian flu, a council has said. Witney&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":296156,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[7394,49,48,26471,84,52780,100392,133389,133388],"class_list":["post-296155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-avian-flu","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-facebook-post","tag-health","tag-oxfordshire","tag-pa-media","tag-swan","tag-witney-town-council"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=296155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296155\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/296156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}