COMMENT
I READ with interest Brian Keenan’s comments in his recent “Canaries Month by Month” (Cage & Aviary Birds February 8 page 15). Brian describes how the UK fancy seems to lack the support of younger people (those in their twenties and thirties) when compared with other European countries. There, people of this younger generation are much more prevalent at shows and events.
It got me thinking of the many fanciers I have had the privilege of interviewing for over the years. A high percentage have explained that they got into birdkeeping because their dad, grandparent, uncle or neighbour had a few birds and that early
