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.

COM announces new Lizard canary standard

YCC pulls out of National Exhibition

QUOTE of the WEEK

Also in the news…

Birds take centre stage in Highly Commended images

FINCHES Plus

New colours and the Gloster

Editor’s Letter

Cage & Aviary Birds

My judging highlights • Three shows at very different venues, but all fun and challenging: that’s how it’s been for SAM WILDES so far in the 2024 season, with more excitement and variety still to come

Our epic birdroom move • In Part Two of our conversation with budgie and zebra finch fanciers PENNY & STEVE LAMBERT, Penny describes how they transferred their shed from Somerset to Wales. Not forgetting the birds! See last week’s issue for Part One

Gail Harland’s WATERBIRDS

My early days with birds • In recent issues of C&AB, several fanciers have recalled how they first caught the bird bug. For DAVID ALLEN, it all began with pigeons, when he was no more than five years old

INTRODUCTION

Steady as we show • We’ll see later that in 1924 not all was serene in birdkeeping, but to judge by articles and letters in Cage Birds the focus was mainly on the joys of showing (and peacetime.) One obvious development was that women were steadily gaining influence in the hobby

Cartoon: IT MITE WORK

Letter: A rare-feathered chaffinch

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FOREWORD

National cut and thrust

Ally Pally rallies: entries jump at the midweek National alternative

The northern option with the difference (and the Yorkies)

Home-based was best

‘Is the great tit dangerous?’

My National memories • CHRIS SMITH recalls some of his memories of the National Exhibition both past and present

Northumbrian Notes • National nostalgia! Austin has so many memories of the great exhibition in its different incarnations - and it became part of a tradition for many fanciers from his native North-East

Bernard Charles Sayers (1944-2024) • With the passing this year of Bernard Sayers, aviculture has taken leave of one of the last representatives of its Golden Age. ALAN GIBBARD looks back on Bernard's remarkable life

Club News • Welcome to the club and show pages – the bit that’s all about you

Club roundup • Show reports, dates, club notices

What’s on this Week