Cage & Aviary Birds

THE UK BUDGERIGAR Club is calling for budgie fanciers to attend its inaugural national show next month, which will feature an innovative new exhibition format with the aim of creating an inclusive show for everyone. The show will take place on Sunday

THE NATURAL HISTORY Museum (NHM) has released a “sneak peek” at some of the Highly Commended images in the run-up to the Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2022 awards in October. In the “Behaviour: Birds” section an image of two dippers fighting over

IN A BID to encourage softbill breeders to become more collaborative and work with each other to build stocks and improve bloodlines, the Suffolk Softbill Breeders (SSB) club has invested in a new Softbill Register. The Softbill Register has been des

SWANS ARE WILLING to swap rest for fights over feeding spots. A time and-energy study of the behaviour of mute and whooper swans has shown that the birds sacrifice resting time in order to squabble over the best places to graze. The recent study by t

ONE OF THE Spix’s macaws (Cyanopsitta spixii) that were released into the wild only three months ago has been killed by a predator, while another has disappeared. In June, the eight birds were released into their natural habitat in the Brazilian caat

AS A keeper of British finches and a keen reader of your weekly publication, I always look forward to reading articles that concentrate on British birds. Those articles seem to be in the minority, probably due to some of the reasons stated in my lett

Expert advice • Opinion • Getting started • Species profiles • Key tips • Leading fanciers AS I write, there were just a few weeks to go before the National at Stafford on October 2. At this stage in the year we usually like to have started assessing

NOT so long ago, before the Queen so sadly passed on, I became sick of turning on the TV or radio and getting little more than the economy: inflation, wages, electricity and gas prices and the overall cost of living. Eventually it gets to you and you

DURING the past fortnight contributions amounting to £7 13s have come to hand, and these raise the grand total of gifts to £3,849 4s 7d. Here are details of the latest donations: ■ Hornsey and Wood Green CBS: £3 ■ High Wycombe CBS: £1 1s ■ Hemel Hemp

ANYONE who knows me will know the effort I had placed into my Fife canary hobby. So much, in fact, so that for the past season all of our Yorkshires remained in my partner Bob Pepper’s birdroom for breeding. That was actually for a twofold reason. Th

THE society had two firsts when it staged its open show on the August bank holiday weekend, writes Ghalib Al-Nasser. It was their first time at a new venue in Cotten-ham Village and the show received the Budgerigar Society (BS) gold championship patr