Cage & Aviary Birds

TO COMMEMORATE 100 years of The Budgerigar Society (BS), for one year only the BS Club Show will be a special centenary event held in June in Blackpool. The Club Show is normally held at The Dome, Doncaster in September. After a break for 2024, the B

“The first class I had up before me contained the clear cap gold cocks, a good class with quality right through.” – David Allen, at Cesena, reminds us of the high standards on display at the major Euro shows. See page 8.■

A STEWARD OF Nyungwe National Park in Rwanda, Claver Ntoyinkima, has won the 2024 Tusk Wildlife Ranger Award for his exceptional dedication to primate and bird conservation. Born near the forest he now protects, Mr Ntoyinkima combines his ecological

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 10 saw me at the South Coast Open Show and Sale at Havant. Although fairly local to me, this is the first time that I have exhibited there. I entered a small team of birds: four English cinnamons and four Irish fancy canaries. The ci

HERE'S an update on the Avian Draw – an update that will be well out of date by the time it appears in print, but I thought readers would be interested. As I write, ticket sales are 14 per cent up on last year at the same stage and the number of orde

ALL OF A sudden we are officially in the season of late shows. Many budgies and some finches are well into their new breeding season, all of the gongs having been handed out for this year. From now on, it's the canaries and native finches that take o

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OVER the years I have used lots of different companies’ seed and more mixes than you can shake a stick of millet at. And I have also had a lot of problems with said seed. Among them are poor germination, dirty seed and seed in bad condition when I've

FEMALE bird curators in zoos are growing in numbers but still form only a small percentage of the whole, worldwide. Twenty years ago there were almost none. Today it is different and women are increasingly becoming important among zoo personnel. A pr

NOVEMBER comes around far too quickly for me. No sooner has the show season got underway with Stafford, which is followed in my case by the L&DYCC show, than November is here. At the time of writing, I'm journeying once again to Istanbul, to judge th

THE society's 58th annual show was held on November 11, 2023. Following the sad loss of three club stalwarts, the 2023 event was made the John Saiger, Eric Braithwaite & Gerry Parker Memorial Show. The 2023 show saw a slight decline in entries with 5

THE 2024 Gateshead & Newcastle BS silver championship show was held in Swalwell Community Centre on August 31. The judges – Jim Bowey, Robert Staig and Grant Findlay – had before them a benched entry of 283 budgerigars. Chair Gary Pringle, show manag

MEMBERS of both societies visited Alan and Gina on September 8. The weather was awful with teeming rain, but this did not deter Gina who braved the elements from under a canopy and served up a super barbecue throughout the day. Alan and Gina have bee

BLUE LIZARD CANARY CLUB this year's show will welcome all Lizard exhibitors. There will be classes for blues, naturals (non colour fed) and colour fed Lizards. Please come along and join on. There will be specials for each section. The show is on Dec

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