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Wild birds and other wild animals.
It is an offence to sell, or offer to buy or sell, most wild birds and other wild animals, dead or alive, without a licence from DEFRA. (Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs).


British birds for sale.
Only aviary bred and close ringed British birds listed under schedule 3 Part 1 of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 can be advertised for sale.


Avian flu.
The European Commission plans to propose that the European Union (EU) put a temporary ban on the import of pet birds to prevent the spread of bird flu, an EU official said. Officials in London called for the ban after a parrot, imported from South America, died in quarantine of the deadly H5N1 virus. .


New species of dolphin found.

A colourful new species of Australian dolphin with a stubby dorsal fin and a big round snout has just been identified, according to an international team of U.S. and Australian scientists.
Called the Australian Snubfin Dolphin, Orcaella heinsohni, the new species hails from the shallow coastal waters of north and northwest Australia.

Secret lights discovered in deep sea

The rare, branched, jellyfish-like siphonophores from more than 5,200 feet (1,600 meters) deep in the Pacific Ocean off California and Mexico are suspected of using their unusual red fluorescent lights at the end of their stalks to attract small fish. The unnamed species and its brethren were previously known to luminesce in blue-green light in order to startle and ward off predators. More at Animal Planet News.


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