Wild birds seem to be one of the main avian influenza carriers, but more research is urgently needed to fully understand their role in spreading the virus,
FAO is concerned that poor countries in southeast Europe, where wild birds from Asia mingle with others from northern Europe, may lack the capacity to detect and deal with outbreaks of bird flu.
This is a very worrying situation, and the risk from wild birds is a very difficult questions,
The need to keep domestic birds away from wild birds has been widely recognized and efforts to do so have been implemented in many countries.