Cage & Aviary Birds

IT’S LIVE: THE Cage & Aviary Birds Grand Christmas Raffle of quality exhibition birds and top birdkeeping equipment is now open, with more than 900 tickets sold during the first few hours! For each of the 36 prizes, the money raised in ticket sales w

FANCY WINNING A 1kg bag of Parrot Food (Superior Quality) or British Finch Mixture, courtesy of bird food specialists Haith’s? Haith’s are giving 10 lucky readers the chance to win either product in our November prize draw. Seed-eating parrots and pa

FOR A SIXTH consecutive year, the UK’s only breeding colony of roseate tern has broken breeding records on the RSPB’s Coquet Island in Northumberland. Since 2016 – and thanks to dedicated conservation – numbers of roseate tern (Sterna dougallii) have

IN THE PAST four decades more than 60 per cent of kakapo eggs have failed to hatch, and while this was previously assumed to be driven by male infertility, new research suggests otherwise. A team from the University of Sheffield and the New Zealand D

WITH reference to the letter in Cage & Aviary Birds, October 6, about seed vouchers instead of rosettes: we at the Western Premier Specialist & Rare Variety Budgerigar Show have been giving 20 bags of seed for best of colour for the past 20 years, si

Expert advice • Opinion • Getting started • Species profiles • Key tips • Leading fanciers IT IS always good to be able to stage a team that features a high percentage of unflighted birds. That’s because it indicates that progress has been made on th

I HAVE long been attracted to Border canaries and have always planned to keep and breed them when I retired. In this I’m following in my late grandfather’s footsteps. He bred and showed Border’s back in the 1960s and 1970s. Unfortunately, my grandfat

A WINTER visitor to the UK, found mostly from Northumberland to northern Scotland, the long-tailed duck (Clangula hyemalis) is a small, neat-looking duck with plumage in white, marked with brownish black. The male is larger and has bolder marks with

THE independence phase in parrots is always one of the most delicate stages in their development. At Loro Parque Fundación, we pay a lot of attention to this process. That is because it is the period during which they begin to carry out their daily a

IT IS my sad duty to announce the death of my very good friend Peter. Peter had looked unwell for some time and had become increasingly frail. However, whenever asked, he was always “fine”. Therefore, through a combination of stoicism and a dislike o

Cage & Aviary Birds: What made you concentrate on the Abyssinian over other species? DG: I’d read a lot about them and decided I wanted to give them a go. I’d heard they were a challenging species, and this actually made them even more appealing to k

■ London fancy section (London Fancy Canary Club) – The 2021 National exhibition saw 20 London fancy exhibits benched. Judge Kevin McCallum said how impressed he was with the quality of the birds. Best London fancy was bred by Richard Knowles and was