Avian Influenza Ecology and Wild Bird Flyways: From Surveillance to Prevention Across Global Migratory Corridors

The panzootic expansion and continuous emergence of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) viruses along migratory flyways poses an escalating threat to wild bird biodiversity, poultry industries, and public health across multiple continents. Wild bird flyways connecting Europe, North America, and the Asia-Pacific region create overlapping surveillance and biosecurity challenges, as viral lineages move along the East Atlantic, Mississippi/Atlantic, and East Asian-Australasian flyways and periodically exchange genetic material where these corridors intersect.Addressing these risks demands a comprehensive One Health perspective and integrated, transdisciplinary approaches that connect surveillance efforts across regions rather than treating them in isolation. This Research Topic provides a collaborative platform for advances in HPAI surveillance in wild and domestic bird populations, viral ecology, and dissemination mechanisms across ecological corridors in Europe, North America, and the Asia-Pacific.We welcome contributions exploring host-pathogen interactions at the wildlife-poultry interface, innovative diagnostic technologies and immunological interventions for prevention, and comparative studies of surveillance strategy and policy response across these regions. Expertise from ornithology, wildlife ecology, veterinary virology, and epidemiology is welcome, with particular interest in research that draws connections between flyway systems in our focus markets rather than presenting single-country case studies alone. Topic editors: Ninnet Gómez-Romero, Gustavo Jimenez, Emily Cornelius Ruhs Source: https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/85588/avian-influenza-ecology-and-wild-bird-flyways-from-surveillance-to-prevention-across-global-migratory-corridors