Cage & Aviary Birds

THE THINK PARROTS show is returning in 2024, bigger and better than ever before. After a five-year break, the show for parrot owners comes back to Kempton Park Racecourse in Sunbury-on-Tharnes, Surrey, on June 9, 2024, run by the new event organisers

THE BOOTH MUSEUM of Natural History in Brighton has opened its first new taxidermy diorama in 100 years. The “Life in the Garden” display was created by ethical taxidermist Jazmine Miles-Long, who only works with birds and animals that have died of n

SHARING ITS FINDINGS from its longrunning Heronries Census, the British Trust for Ornithology (BTO) revealed that colonising egrets and spoonbills are continuing to increase in many parts of the UK, while breeding grey herons seem slow in bouncing ba

I’D LIKE to respond to Steven Chennells’s letter “New colour Glosters” (Cage & Aviary Birds, January 31). As a starting point in this debate, maybe we need to recognise how the Gloster canary was created. Around a hundred years ago, the Gloster canar

AFTER last year’s very average zebra finch breeding season, there have certainly been a few sighs of relief so far this year. Last year, to get the birds to complete the first stage of the breeding season - fertilising eggs - was the first challenge.

AS I have had reason to state before, the competition among novice Fife fanciers is currently very competitive and we are regularly seeing best in shows being won by novice fanciers. And during the last show season Neil Dams and Joanne Vickers from W

I WRITE this looking out on a cold, wet, miserable day! It is sufficient to make you long for the warm days of summer - but then, when I walk down the garden to my birdroom, I am assaulted by the exuberant singing of cock canaries, the burbling song

PUTTING on a show for mixed varieties can present a range of challenges to show organisers. The traditional cage bird society event is a typical example. One challenge is to find judges to cover all the sections. Often, the cost or justification of b

THE second phase of the study examined tail-feather moult in tagged wild black cockatoos. When the tags and tail feathers could be retrieved and it was possible to determine that the feathers had been moulted, researchers worked out the estimated lif

THE society held another successful area championship show in 2023 with an increase in total entry from previous years, reports Ghalib Al-Nasset; show organiser. The atmosphere was great with plenty of visitors and die overseas judge Bjorn Johansson