Cage & Aviary Birds

Cage & Aviary Birds is written by bird experts for bird fanciers and is packed with club, show and bird related news, advice, birds for sale and comment. Established in 1902, Cage & Aviary Birds provides a wealth of practical advice and tips from the top names in the bird world, plus opinion, controversy, species and hobbyist profiles and nostalgia.

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Editor's Letter

Cage & Aviary Birds

So, how good are they really? • Your freshly moulted Lizard canaries may look useful to you, but will an experienced judge such as DAVID ALLEN agree? With the show season now underway, you’ll soon find out

This year's Southern National • December 7: get the date in your diary! Co-organiser JAMIE TAYLOR explains the vision behind the ambitious Bird Keepers Association event – and why everyone is welcome there

Two models, one show bird • Do the slightly different pictorials that are current in the Fife hobby represent incompatible visions of the bird? No, says ADAM KENDALL of the Kendall Stud – and between them they illustrate the way forward for the exhibition Fife

‘Spoon-feeding’ the professional way • Should you hand-rear or parent-rear baby birds? It’s often a difficult choice, especially when the young are rare birds like the spoonbill. SUSIE KEARLEY finds out how expert keeper ISSY WRIGHT approached the problem this year at Cotswold Wildlife Park

Safeguarding the Gloster standard: a call to fanciers worldwide • In the centenary year of the Gloster canary, NICK BARRETT introduces a newly created extended version of the pictorial model that the Gloster Fancy Canary Council has produced

My quietly confident ground doves • An enjoyable addition to CHRIS GREEN’s collection has been his well-matched pair of blue ground doves, whose character is a delight and parenting effective if patchy!

A personal view of prepping canaries • So many exhibitors, especially new ones, let their good birds down by making errors of preparation and presentation. JAY BUNKER reminds us all what’s needed this show season

Youth mortality is the foe • Continuing his article from last week, DAVID WAUGH describes the drastic measures that are currently being taken to prevent the orange-bellied parrot becoming extinct. To have hope of success, that will mean finding out how to stop the parrots dying in their first year

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