Beached bird surveys in The Netherlands summer 2022 & winter 2022/23, RWS Centrale Informatievoorziening BM 23.16.

This is the annual report on beached bird survey (BBS) combining results obtained in The Netherlands during summer 2022 (May-Oct) and the winter 2022/23. Summer 2022 was a particularly turbulent season, with HPAIV H5N1 virus outbreaks affecting seabirds all over the Northern Hemisphere. Within the Netherlands, coastal colonies of Sandwich Terns Thalasseus sandvicensis were severely affected. Elsewhere in Western Europe, Northern Gannets Morus bassanus and Great Skuas Stercorarius skua were among the most severely affected populations. In this report, summer strandings of (most probably) affect... Mehr ...