‘A genuine wildlife emergency’: everything you need to know about the arrival of H5 bird flu in Australia

An Antarctic brown skua confronts a gentoo penguin. A sick skua found in WA died from the H5N1 virus. Photograph: Vicki Beaver/Alamy

A deadly strain of bird flu, known as H5 bird flu, has arrived on the Australian mainland.

The federal agriculture minister, Julie Collins, confirmed in late June that a brown skua – found sick in Western Australia – had died from the H5N1 virus. The skua is a wild migratory bird.