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.

Kãkãpõ return to NZ mainland for the first time in 40 years

Yorkshire Foreign Bird Society forced to fold

QUOTE of the WEEK

Also in the news…

Stranded juvenile gull rescued from high building

‘Wild’ golden pheasants no longer have a viable population in the UK

Parasitised drongos fight back against ’forged’ cuckoo eggs

BIRDKEEPER AT LARGE

The warmest of welcomes to birdkeeping!

Editor’s Letter

Cage & Aviary Birds

Plans for my own budgie shed • Junior fancier JOSH BROWN is pressing ahead with his colour budgies: he’s got new cages and some generously gifted new stock. A new room for them can’t be far away

Late summer in the birdroom • Experienced Fife canary champion DAVID SHELBOURNE summarises his management for the months of July and August, and pays tribute to the life-saving canaries of the past

Wellbeing before breeding • If we plan to set nesting pairs down soon, we must give priority to our budgerigars’ fitness well in advance, insists MARTIN LAMBERT. Here he describes the health essentials to check

From Brazil to England - with love • With their unique charm, parrots can capture hearts in many ways, says ROSEMARY LOW

My verdict on 2023? Crazy! • Although his results were a little canary-heavy, OLIVER CROWTHER can report some good late results with his redpolls and a ’great save’ with his twites!

MAGNIFICENT AND MORE: the riflebirds • With their outrageous circular fan-like displays, the riflebird species have achieved celebrity - yet many quite basic details of their life history remain unknown. BILL NAYLOR reports

The red is here, is the black next? • The smaller, migratory cousin of the reintroduced red kite is a global success story, has spread northward in Europe and may yet colonise the British lsles. GRAHAM WELLSTEAD explains how to identify it and provides the background story

Variety in focus: opalines • In the first overview in a series focusing on the main budgerigar varieties, FRED WRIGHT offers a personal introduction to a budgerigar with a rich past but a more uncertain future

A cat ate my Belgian hen! • It’s absoutely not a joke - DONALD SKINNER-REID has been left cursing a combination of fate and a sticky cage door

A beautiful waxbill duo • As a popular avicultural journal published during the 1930s, The Foreigner catered for keepers of ‘exotic’ bird species of all kinds (which then included budgerigars) and its articles still make lively reading. in the first of an occasional series, here are two entries from its ‘Waxbill Anthology’. Journals contributed by reader SANDY HAY

Training: the third leg of the tripod • In the seventh article in his series on breeding Yorkshire canaries for exhibition, Steve explains why show training is equal in importance to breeding and conditioning if your aim is to impress the judge. He goes on to describe his training methods in detail

Two-month roundup • Welcome to the club and show pages - the bit that’s all about you

Club roundup • Show reports, dates, club notices

Cracking members’ show and BBQ

What’s on this Week Club meetings nationwide • Includes sales held by clubs to benefit their members. For other sales, please book an advert