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

Presentation promises well • Always self-critical when it comes to show performance, MARK JONES was pleased with how a number of his exhibits held themselves in the show cage during the last season

Stafford: gateway to the breeding season • The famous sale pitches up at just the right time every year, reckons DAVE BROWN, who came home with a carload of buys and enjoyed seeing everyone at their most optimistic

My journey from wood to wire • The transition to adopting wire as material for all his cages didn't happen in a single jump, but in stages for NEIL CAWLEY – and it's been a facet of his management that he's never regretted and would recommend to others

RUDDY DUCK: the charmer we chose to ban • Intriguing or comical according to taste: what nobody could call the ruddy duck is ‘boring’. BILL NAYLOR profiles an irresistible waterbird whose feral population has been controversially eliminated from the UK because of its potential to hybridise in Europe

Second round puts me back on track • Despite some losses of breeding birds as well as other frustrations, TONY EDWARDS has so far improved on the production of chicks compared to the previous two seasons. Now it's a case of ‘all systems go’ for a June finish to breeding, after which he plans to move on a lot of stock to interested fanciers

Playing it cool on early breeding • Long experience has convinced David not to jump the gun with any of his pairings and if they need to wait till well into April, then that's fine with him

An alternative to owls • Having kept and bred tawny frogmouths at Cotswold Wildlife Park, CHRIS GREEN is delighted to recommend these night-flyers to keepers with space for a large enclosure

Good entry after ‘indifferent’ breeding season • Welcome to the club and show pages – the bit that's all about you

A winner fit for a World Show medal

Obituary

A word from Danny Higgins

It's official: five years is now the limit for novice exhibitors

Club roundup

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