Cage & Aviary Birds

VOTING IS NOW open for the Wildlife Photographer of the Year (WPOTY) People's Choice Award 2022 run by the Natural History Museum (NHM), London. There are 25 images in the running to win, with three bird species featured, chosen from 38,575 entries a

AS ALWAYS, anything from Mr Liddiatt is of great interest and I have a couple of points that may be relevant to his letter “Lizard colour variants” (November 23, 2022). In his book The Encyclopaedia of Cage and Aviary Birds, C.H. Rogers mentions some

WITH all the preparation time that fanciers put into their show teams, it is not unreasonable that many arrive at the show hall with high hopes of how their most favoured exhibits will perform in front of the judge on the day. However, livestock (and

IBISES are some of the most characterful of waterbirds, with their downward-turned bills and inquisitive, confiding eyes. And one of the small compensations for the worldwide climate-change crisis for UK bird enthusiasts is that we now have the oppor

WITHOUT doubt, the one factor that promotes breeding conditioning above all else is the lengthening of daylight and light on the eye. During these winter months, you can feed all the supplements on the market and every additive known to man, but if y

THE coscoroba swan (Coscoroba coscoroba) is the smallest of the seven species of swan and differs sufficiently to warrant it being assigned to its own genus. Unlike the Cygnus swans, it lacks the facial skin that approaches the eyes and has a more fl

THE dust has settled and it's time to think seriously about the future of the Club Show. I enjoyed the show last September and liked many of the birds. I thought the judging was greatly improved on recent years. The judges seemed to be looking for sh

PG: SO HOW do you sex your mealies? JD: The best way to be accurate is to have their DNA checked. If you send one or two it costs about £8 each, but send a lot away you get them tested for £6.50 each. It saves a lot of heartache. You know every one w

Welcome to the club and show pages – the bit that's all about you THE society had to cancel its October mondtly colour competition and dre Peter's Swindle because of die bird du pandemic in the area, reports president Ghalib AlNasser. However, member

THE society was down on numbers for the October 22 meeting with 21 members and guests in attendance, reports Terry Tuxford. This was due to holidays, side effects from covid booster jabs and a family 18th birthday celebration. Society chairman Jim La

SEVERAL members of the South Western ZFC exhibited at tire Jurassic Coast Open Show on October 30, and won most of die prizes on offer for the zebra finch section and the best Bengalese and Bengalese breeder ones too. These members travelled from var

A BUMPER entry of 496 birds were entered at die Kent Gloster Society show held on October 1 2022. The entry was boosted by three large teams of birds from die partnerships of Skeffington & Gill, Goddard & Rands and Rose & Mc. Cardry. All drree partne