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Shorebirds migration map
Migratory birds take the East Asian Australasian Flyway to Australia every spring with many travelling from as far as Siberia.(Supplied)

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H5N1 is steadily moving closer to Australia.(Illustration: ABC Science/Australian Antarctic Division)

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  • 500,000 wild birds dead in South America;
  • 40 per cent of Peruvian pelicans dead in a matter of months;
  • Populations of great skuas that breed in Scotland down by 60 per cent;
  • 16 per cent of Europe's Sandwich Terns have died in one year;
  • 30,000 South American sea lions have died equal to around 10 per cent of the population;
  • 18,000 southern elephant seals have died

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