The illness has struck the young swans and geese at the Lower Derwent Valley National Nature Reserve, a series of flood meadows, pastures and woodlands which support a rich diversity of plant species and outstanding populations of breeding and wintering birds.
DOZENS of cygnets and scores of greylag geese have been killed by avian flu at a nature reserve near York.
The illness has struck the young swans and geese at the Lower Derwent Valley National Nature Reserve, a series of flood meadows, pastures and woodlands which support a rich diversity of plant species and outstanding populations of breeding and wintering birds.
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