Cage & Aviary Birds

THE 2024 WILDLIFE Photographer of the Year People's Choice Award runner-up winner, Mark Boyd, is hosting a new guided conservation tour of Zimbabwe on June 2-13, 2024. The tour will also be joined by Nick Murray, the award-winning conservation photog

“Presentation is vitally important when judging and the term ‘steady’ doesn't mean ‘stopped’!” Mark Jones likes to see a bird working the perches when he is judging. Find out more on page 9. ■

A MAN HAS been found guilty of shooting dead a sparrowhawk at an allotment in Yorkshire. A witness filmed the defendant “committing the crime” after hearing gunfire. Peter Smith, 78, from Barnsley, made a “not guilty” plea to killing a wild bird unde

SPRING IS FINALLY here, although when I'm working outside in the cold and wet I think the winter will last forever. That said, many of our birds are now nesting and nest-boxes and baskets have now been constructed or repaired and placed back into the

THE WORLD PHEASANT Association (WPA) is celebrating a special anniversary for the Vietnam Pheasant Recovery Project in Vietnam. This year marks 100 years since French-American ornithologist Jean Delacour first brought the Vietnam pheasant (Lophura ed

I CANNOT allow the letter about Gloster canaries in the January 31 issue of Cage & Aviary Birds to go unanswered. The colours that now seem to be causing a problem have been around for a long time. For instance, agate was first reported in the late 1

THIS is an expression now often used when buying goods online. We are all tempted by bargains, but there's another saying that is also worth remembering: “If it sounds too good to be true, it isn't true”! Personally, I have bought birds over many yea

THE BRITISH BIRD Council looks to have been strongly proactive with its recent committee reshuffle (News, page 2). It is especially heartening that Chris Williams has stepped up to become chairman. Chris could scarcely have a more experienced mentor

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RECENTLY I had the pleasure to have an old bird friend, Ron Howe – a fine old man well into his eighties – call around and have a look at the birds. Ron's visit got me thinking. One of the great aspects of the fancy is that it can involve people of a

THE two species of crestless fireback pheasants, Lophura erythrophthalma from Sumatra and the Malay Peninsula and L. pyronota from Borneo, have recently been recognised as under imminent risk of extinction. Whereas the Bornean fireback is now assesse

Controversy surrounding the ring-issue date for budgerigars in the UK continues unabated and unless the BS holds a referendum on the issue, will continue ad nauseam (wrote Fred Sherman of South Africa in 1995). I was surprised to hear, at WBO meeting

THE BCCC Northern show was held on a cold early morning of December 2, 2023 at the Bowburn Community Centre, Dunham Road, Bowburn, Dunham DH6 5AT. The club had 301 birds entered, although only 256 birds were benched on the day. The show was judged by

IN OCTOBER 2023, the society held the presentation of the late Alan Rawsthorne Trophy for best young bird in show at the annual members’ show. The winner was Brian Anderson (pictured below, left) with Geoff Corser. ■

BRITISH COLOURED CANARY CLUB the Northern Championship Show which was planned for November 30, 2024 has had to be rearranged to November 16 due to a clash of dates with the Southern Championship Show. The show will still be held in Bowburn Community

ALDERSHOT CBS – February 29, Victoria Hall, 121 Ash Hill Road, Ash, Aldershot, Hampshire GU12 5DH. Meeting. Enquiries: 07395 973 971 or email: adcbs@hotmail.com BARNSTAPLE & NORTH DEVON CBS – March 6, Corner House Pub, 108 Boutport Street (corner of

CINDERFORD CBS is saddened to report the death of its president and chairman Peter Waugh on January 31, 2024. Peter had been a loyal member of the club for many years, taking on various roles within the club with great enthusiasm. He was a champion b