Transporting birds: where do we go from here?
IT IS always best to have an optimistic outlook. Granted, stories abound concerning “the decline of the fancy”: we hear about lower show entries, clubs folding, rival factions forming breakaway groups… In reality, a little bit of delving into birdkeeping history would suggest that the pages of this newspaper, which has been in existence for 120 years, have often been filled with fanciers bemoaning the same problems.
Recently, however, there do
