Cage & Aviary Birds

READERS OF CAGE & Aviary Birds (C&AB) and their families are invited to a special event at Birdworld in Surrey on June 22. Last held in 2018, the first Birdworld visit was a huge hit with old and young alike. The 2024 event has special tours and talk

A NEW GENETIC discovery has revealed that feather colour in tawny owls is directly linked to their environment and allows them to survive in extreme weather conditions. The tawny owl can be found in woodlands across Europe and western Siberia and the

RECENTLY, I contacted APHA at their office in Scotland to confirm the show and sales dates for our club for 2024. Their reply came enclosing a copy of the applicable General Licence for Scotland (EXD 178(AI) (S)), which was dated February 5, 2024. Th

PARADISE Park in Hayle, Cornwall, is renowned for its superb collection of birds, arguably the best in the UK. Behind the scenes it carries out breeding for conservation projects of great value. These include a programme for a native bird that had di

A GARDEN aviary is the aspiration of many first-time birdkeepers. Before the build, it is worth giving some consideration to both site and design. You want your birds to enjoy the best possible environment. You also want to have the best view – and c

WHY should the perch for waxbills be as thin as a lead pencil, to quote Mr Cotterell in Part One of The Foreigner? I have always found birds keep their feet cleaner with thick perches. – Haakon Kvikne, Norway. BIRDS advertised as “slightly plucked”,

MANY people, I am aware, believe that every pair of birds should lay a good number of fertile eggs. Then all of these should hatch, and all of the chicks should be fed. But when, in reality, does this hapen? Some breeders let nature take its course,

RECENTLY I had the great privilege of finding myself out on a flight to Madrid, which was followed by a lift to Talavera. My task was to judge the foreign seedeaters (Section F) at the 71st World Show, an event that attracted some 25,000 entries acro

WHEN I was running my stud, quite often in spring and summer, and particularly during the show season, I'd get calls from fanciers wanting to buy stock for the following breeding season. Too often I would hear: “I'm looking for something a bit specia

THE North Monastery Secondary School was the venue for the Cork Show Bird Society's annual show on November 4-5, 2023. [See the January 24, 2024 issue for our news story.] This show was the society's centenary year, having formed in 1923 in which the

THE FFF is pleased to award the first Lumsden diplomas to successful exhibitors in its introductory year. These prestigious awards have a high degree of difficultly in achieving the required amount of wins, yet this year novice exhibitors are the fir