Cage & Aviary Birds

INTO JUDGING MODE

‘FROM THE BIRDROOM’

WITH the show season at last with us, our minds are focused once again on exhibiting our birds.

Some will choose to support the smaller shows, while others will elect to exhibit their birds at the larger events. One thing that all of these shows have in common is that they require judges to place the awards. This is often overlooked by many fanciers and equally often taken for granted – yet without these people who are prepared to give their opinion there would be no competitive shows.

When I look back at my records, I judged Yorkshire canaries for the first time at

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