Cage & Aviary Birds

A HISTORICAL MEDAL from the Crested Canary Club has been donated to well-known crested canary fancier Ken Rix. Cage & Aviary Birds reader, David Taylor from Exeter, wrote into the paper to say that he had inherited the medal from his mother and that

THANKS TO TROPICAN, we have three 2kg bags of Tropican Hand-Feeding Formula up for grabs. Tropican says its Hand-Feeding Formula provides proper daily nutrition for baby parrots up to fledgling, which is a critical age of a parrot’s life. This high-c

“My most traumatic losses have involved peregrines. I sometimes feel they are too intelligent.” Graham Wellstead recalls some falcons that have led him a merry (or not-so-merry) dance. Seepage 16.

UNESCO HAS APPROVED the designation of 11 new biosphere reserves in 11 countries, including Belgium and Gambia for the first time and two transboundary biosphere reserves. The other new biosphere reserves are located in Colombia, Dominican Republic,

TWYCROSS ZOO IN Warwickshire has welcomed a pair of redfronted macaws (Ara rubrogenys) as part of a conservation programme. The birds recently arrived from Edinburgh Zoo and the Welsh Mountain Zoo. Native to Bolivia, the redfronted macaw is classifie

BLUE AND GREAT tits can recall what they have eaten in the past, where they found the food and when they found it, finds a new study. Researchers from the University of Cambridge and the University of East Anglia studied 94 freeliving wild blue tits

A WILDLIFE PHOTOGRAPHER from Neath in Wales has been found guilty of disturbing protected birds of prey. John Paul Haffield, 68, appeared before Swansea Magistrates Court on June 25 where he was found guilty and fined more than £1,600 for offences ag

I THINK IT’S in our character to comment and moan about the weather, but I’m seriously starting to wonder if summer will ever appear. As mentioned in previous columns, I have placed all my males and the hardier species in my outside aviary to expedit

I WAS delighted to see your own, rare, article on the Blakiston’s fish owl (Cage & Aviary Birds, July 17). I am pretty sure that Ketupa blakfstoni will be a species new to many readers, and the article was informative to others such as myself who kne

I’M GETTING In touch from Octopus Books as we will publishing Bob the Robin, the story of an incredible friendship between one man and a wild robin, and a beautiful celebration of the nation’s favourite bird by gardener and wildlife photographer Tony

“I CAN SAY I have bred ordinary greens, inter-greens, yellows, yellow whitewings, apple greens, yellow olives, olives, olive blues, blue, white-tailed and -wings in blue, blues, powder blues and lastly greys, a real French grey with black markings.”

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THIS is the time of the year when, with luck, we have cages full of youngsters. Which is great - but with Lizards it can pose a problem. When youngsters are in small groups they can fight or bicker and possibly lose a few feathers. For Lizards, that

FOLLOWING on from my comments about the more difficult second-round breeding that I was experiencing, I am pleased to confirm that normal service was resumed when taking a third round. Those Fife hens that had reared youngsters in the first round wen

CHRIS RAY was a childhood birdkeeper and returned to birdkeeping when semiretirement was approaching. He kept a wide variety the first time around and when he came back to the hobby Chris took it up from where he’d left off. His set-up includes a bir

ON LOOKING back over the past year, I have noted that it has been one that included the good the bad, and the not-so-pretty. Many people who come to visit and look at my birds and aviaries seem to have the idea that it is an easy task. You get to sit

LAST month the family and I had a very enjoyable day at the Cage & Aviary Birds event at Birdworld. My son Josh shared his highlights in the July 10 issue. For me personally, it was a great opportunity to see some stylish softbills and parrotlike. On

BIRDS belong to a group collectively called vertebrates: that is, they have a spinal cord. And as many people will tell you, they share numerous similarities with reptiles. If you were to ask those people to define what a bird is, they might say: “a

I HAVE kept birds of prey for a very long time. My first was as long ago as 1947 when, along with a friend who was an RSPCA inspector, I had an interest in injured birds and mammals. We both (I a 10-year-old boy, and he a 40-something) learned togeth

OUT of the 988 bird species recorded in Australia, 59 (6 per cent) are parrots. However, in 2020 a new study estimated the “threat burden” to Australian species, attempting to gauge them by (a) the need for knowledge to manage threats effectively and

MEMBERS met at Padgate Community Centre, Padgate, Warrington on May 12 for the second members’ show of 2024. Classes were scheduled for 2024 young birds and bar-heads, and additional classes for any age (AA) birds in the new starter section. A total

EVERY fancier who visited the last Crystal Palace show will remember this exquisite pair of royal blues which won second prize, in a magnificent class, for their breeder and exhibitor, Mrs M. Dalton-Burgess FZS of Bristol. Unfortunately, no black-and

MEDALS and certificates for breeding achievements in 2023 were presented to members in attendance at the AGM ill March. [See our News story, April 24 issue.] All members who submitted returns will receive a certificate while the best results in each

LINCOLNSHIRE & EAST ANGLIA BS area championship show hosted by Ipswich BS will be held on July 28 at Great Blakenham Village Hall, Mill Lane, Great Blakenham, Suffolk IP6 ONJ. MID ESSEX BS gold plus CB show on September 8 at Blackmore Village Hall, N

THE June 12 meeting of Gateshead & Newcastle BS was the annual ring show Nos. 2, 6 and 9, with the judge and guest speaker Adrian Richards (pictured right). Adrian selected a whitewing cock budgerigar exhibited by the society chairman, Gary Pringle,

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