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.

Dr Kevin Eatwell set to open new vet practice

Haith’s introduces the ‘Priced to Fly!’ range

QUOTE of the WEEK

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Rare hybridisation between grey heron and little egret in France

PARROTS & PEOPLE

DEFRA DEADLINES: the kidology of registration • What are we to make of DEFRA and its compulsory registration scheme, which now gives October 1 as the date for compliance, even though the law has not been amended? Editor ROB INNES reports

AN URGENT MESSAGE TO YCC MEMBERS

Cage & Aviary Birds

Zebras, budgies and so much more • LARRY MANN recommends an exemplary zoo near Huntingdon, which should delight both fanciers and their families with its wealth of birds and animals

Selecting for smallness • In the Fife fancy, size matters - small size, that is. And as Steve explains, it is one of many criteria to be balanced when you come to select stock for retention in your breeding team

Incubation: they do it their way • Why bother to sit on eggs and brood young when you can build a huge mound, lay your eggs in it and then spend all year on maintenance? That’s the megapode way, says BILL NAYLOR!

A better year for many • Although conditions for softbill enthusiasts remain challenging, GARY BRALSFORD draws encouragement from the diverse breeding successes around the UK and elsewhere this year

Fluid adaptations for liquid living • Previously, PAUL DONOVAN has discussed how birds have evolved arboreal and terrestrial lifestyles. Now he considers a third widespread group of habitat specialists: the waterbirds

AN EPIC MOVE IN PICTURES! • Last week, PENNY and STEVE LAMBERT told us how they’d moved their zebra finch and budgerigar collections from Somerset to Wales. To take down, transfer and rebuild their birdroom took months — but they did it! And luckily they took some photos along the way

No mite and the moult’s nearly over • Despite losing two canaries in the moult, Andy is now looking forward to entering some 10-strong teams at the shows. And another year without a sniff of birdkeeping’s least favourite parasite feels good, too

Q&A: Adam Fleming • A true devotee of the fancy, ADAM FLEMING is always up for a new challenge and is the driving force behind Scotland’s National Bird Club. Here he summarises his time in the hobby

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

Club roundup • Show reports, dates, club notices

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