Cage & Aviary Birds

TWO BIRD-RELATED IMAGES took top honours at the Nature TTL Photographer of the Year 2022 awards. More than 8,000 images were entered, with nature photographers from around the world competing to secure the top £1,500 cash prize. The winning photograp

BITTERNS HAVE BRED for the third year in a row on the Gwent Levels in South Wales – with this year being the most successful breeding season to date. Bitterns (Botaurus stellaris) at the Newport Wetlands National Nature Reserve have fledged six chick

Expert advice • Opinion • Getting started • Species profiles • Key tips • Leading fanciers AN EXHIBITION zebra finch is bred to be shown, and late summer through to winter is the time when the exhibitions are held. Following a bit of adjustment to th

WELL, my birdroom is full of feathers. It’s that horrible time of the year that all canary breeders hate. But look at it this way: it is the beginning of the end of all your hard work and planning. In only a few more weeks you will see whether those

IN 1922, Britain’s most prestigious show was the Scottish National, which had continued to take place uninterrupted by the First World War. Cage Birds, being London-based, was keen to promote the claims of an “English National”, and it was in this ye

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THIS follow-up to the inaugural Welsh National seven years earlier took place during a severe economic downturn in South Wales. The Cage Birds report is frankly a bit sniffy, though it flowers into some elaborate language when it gets to the good bit

GIVEN that its name translates as “Parrot Park”, it’s no surprise that the parrot collection here is vast. The general pattern is of type-specific sections around the park, for example Amazon parrots, conures, lories and lorikeets, and so on. These a