Whist poking around the BBC News site today, I found THIS.

Whilst poking around the University of York site, I found THIS (scroll down to page 16).

Now. Compare and contrast. And keep in mind that the second list is by NO means comprehensive. I'm rather sure we also have Bewick's Swans, Mallards, and White-fronted Geese.

For those of you who couldn't be bothered to actually click the links, that means that the U of York pays host to 7 of the 10 most likely species to import bird flu.

All that having been said, the people at the U of York have circulated a memo.

Ha! With a case of H5N1 already found in a Scottish swan, and another strain of the flu found in Norfolk it's only a matter of time... Not that I will be closely handling the waterfowl around campus at any point in the near future, but nonetheless, it is a bit worrying to know that our campus could easily become a hotbed of lethal disease, especially when their shit is EVERYWHERE.

I Am Reading
Academically: Treason in Tudor England: Politics and Paranoia (Lacey Baldwin-Smith)
For Fun: still Hudson. Learned last night that while Charles II had 15 (16?) bastards, Henry II takes the cake with 20 or 22.