Cage & Aviary Birds

THE RESULTS ARE in and the lucky winners of the 2023 Avian Draw have been announced. Continuing its year-on-year growth, the Avian Draw was well supported by the fancy with a total of 12,028 tickets sold. The winners were announced on the Mid Essex B

NEW RESEARCH HAS found that free-ranging domestic cats eat more than 2,000 wild animal species, including 350 species of conservation concern, as well as those species that are Critically Endangered and those that are now believed to be Extinct in th

WITH the recent passing of Bernard Howlett, the fancy has lost a very experienced aviculturist, a huge competitor on the show scene in the softbills section and, in later years, the champion of the new London fancy canary. Bernard was very well known

WHEN I look back to the year 2015 and the challenges it brought to myself and other fanciers, there was one major aspect that I have not yet mentioned. It is the effect of making major alterations in your breeding room. Several fanciers contacted me

So-called spring-cleaning is really a task best carried out in the late winter – it's one of those jobs that this quiet time in the birdroom frees us up to do, explains DAVID ALLEN HERE is another year, and we have it all to look forward to! For ever

IT GOES without saying that progressive greying in yellow or predominantly yellow canaries is hardly noticeable. Many breeders are probably subconsciously happy that slightly variegated birds turn out completely yellow, without paying much attention

ABIRD'S digestive system is a simple structure when compared to that of a mammal. Nonetheless, it is an efficient one. It does its required job well, in breaking down food in order to supply the body with all the nutrients it requires to function. Th

THE Ipswich BS hosted the Lincolnshire & East Anglia (LEA) BS specialist and rare variety show early October 2023, at a venue in Risby, near Bury St. Edmunds, reports Ghalib Al-Nasser. There was a different format to the show where erecting the stagi

LEEDS BS held its annual members’ show on October 22, 2023. Guest judge was Greg Willocks from Doncaster BS. Greg recently became a Budgerigar Society panel judge at the Club Show and also won trainee judge of the year. The venue was at the Farsley S