Germany’s Minister for Agriculture, Alois Rainer, explained at the Agriculture Council meeting in Luxembourg on Monday 27 October that, unlike in previous years, there had been a “shift with regard to the species concerned” by avian influenza.
Due to “a change in flight periods or migration routes”, cranes, which “previously had no contact with the avian influenza virus”, came into close contact with other infected migratory birds, he added. “The cranes then become...