CATEGORIES

Cornwall Celebrates 50 Years

MEMBERS of Cornwall BS decided to get their act together and organise a celebration of the club’s golden anniversary (50 years) with a well-attended dinner in November 2016, writes Fred Wright.

Bristol Club Names Bob Allen As Deserving Member Of New Award

Bristol Club Names Bob Allen As Deserving Member Of New Award

Essex Club To Host New Cage Proposal

Essex Club To Host New Cage Proposal

Whiter Cheeks: Key To A Five-star Partner, Says Study

Whiter Cheeks: Key To A Five-star Partner, Says Study

Project Sees First Hand-Reared Godwits Leave The UK

Project Sees First Hand-Reared Godwits Leave The UK

The Perfect Source

Starting with Yorkies? Once you have considered the when, where and how of adding stock to your set-up, next on your agenda is who to purchase stock from, advises BRIAN KEENAN.

Picking Pairs On A Snowy Sunday

DONALD SKINNER-REID puts his spare time to good use deciding on his Scots, Belgian and Giboso breeding tactics.

Life In A Garden Aviary

Parrot Society secretary LES RANCE continues his three-part series on the pleasures of colony-breeding budgerigars with tips on feeding, nesting and closed-ringing youngsters.

Success On Two Fronts

There’s nothing more satisfying as a big win with your specialist breed... unless it’s a second big win with your other specialist breed. It doesn’t happen often, but last year it happened to HARRY CLARKE , one half of the successful Clarke & Gillott Fife partnership. He talks to Dave Brown about the well-oiled workings of the partnership, and also his own solo enterprises.

Roller Karaoke

This month, GARY BRALSFORD hits the ground running as he prepares his birds for the breeding season by employing an interesting tactic that involves playing wild bird calls...

Three Years In The Making

After a break from keeping the charismatic dusky munia, in 2016 NEIL BICKELL decided to start up with this species again. But the road ahead wasn’t easy, with problems sourcing new stock, breeding challenges and messy nests.

Autumn Deluge Of Yorkies

When STEVE DOMINEY was invited to judge Turkey’s Edremit Yorkshire Canary Club show in October last year, he couldn’t pass up the chance to enjoy the sight of more than 1,000 Yorkies on the bench... and a trip on the local mayor’s yacht went down well, too!

Green Means Go

After a rather too eventful start to the breeding season, DAVE BROWN decided to evaluate his pairings, get his birds back on track fitness-wise and trial a new ingredient in his eggfood, which seems to be going down a treat.

Can Apples Poison Our Birds?

After scientists recently revealed that washing apples with water and even commercial bleach, does not remove all traces of the pesticides they have been sprayed with, ROSEMARY LOW decided to do her own investigation to see if these findings could mean our birds are at risk.

Where's My Hawk?

With technology advancing at speed, GRAHAM WELLSTEAD considers some ingenious new techniques for tracking falcons.

Nutrition: What's Best For Our Birds?

DOT SCHWARZ discusses the pros and cons of pelleted diets and seed mixtures in the first of three articles on parrot diets. Part Two: April 18.

Quality On The Show Bench In Bahrain

When DAVE BROWN fulfilled an invitation to judge the zebra finches at the Bahrain Zebra Finch and Budgerigar Club’s show this year, he was well impressed at the quality of birds set in front of him – and some of the birdrooms he visited made an equal impression.

If I Could Start Again

We only get one start in the birdkeeping hobby, and none of us ever gets everything right. Here SAM WILDES shares his own ‘I wish’ list of stuff he’d like to have been told as a beginner.

Everything But The Budgie

To complement our newfound enthusiasm for making friends and doing business online, there’s nothing like a bird sale for getting fanciers together. FRED WRIGHT reviews the sales scene, and concludes it’s so much better than it was – unless you are after quality show budgerigars!

On The Grandest Stage Of All

This year, a piece of exhibition history was made at the World Show in Cesena, Italy, which posted a serious claim to be the greatest bird show of all time. The experienced canary judge ERNESTO GRACIA was privileged to be part of it, and here presents the first of three articles that reflect on the Cesena show, the European exhibition fancy, and Britain’s part in it.