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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Cage & Aviary Birds

Paradise Park and choughs: a new film • Who'd have guessed that this jewel of a bird park would pioneer the return of a unique species, not in its native Cornwall, but in the Channel Islands? A fascinating documentary tells the story.

What's next in 2024? • With different colours well represented in his stud, TONY EDWARDS always enjoys plenty of options for next-season projects. Here he describes some of these intriguing possibilities

Design basics for a new-build • Whether you already have a birdroom or not, an aviary can enhance your garden. Follow DAVE BROWN's simple guidelines and you can look forward to years of pleasure

Rio at large in Stockport • DONALD SKINNER-REID masterminds the emergency care for a lost cockie and confirms the spookiness potential of writing for Cage & Aviary Birds

Short and pithy • Reader SANDY HAY of Portknockie CBS liked these letters from the famous birdkeeping journal of 1934. ‘Keep them short’ was the editor's instruction – usually adhered to!

INTERVENTION: 9 in 10 times, it works for me • ‘Heat mats dehydrate,’ people claimed. Always keen to save every egg and chick, SAM WILDES went against the received wisdom and now uses this kit effectively when he needs to step in

A waxbill to warm the heart • Provided that you can offer the dry and balmy birdroom conditions that are essential, the lovely violet-eared waxbill is a pleasure to keep and breed. GARY BRALSFORD reports

My 400-fold task • Well-known foreign bird specialist GRAHAM LEE was the sole UK judge at the recent World Show. And while the assignment was pretty epic, the quality in quantity on the bench made his two-day mission richly worthwhile

How to decide what you need • It sounds simple – but ALAN MARCHANT found that fanciers’ ill-defined buying objectives often got in the way when he was trying to help them

Vlaamse show offers Euro insights • A good Border and Fife show is always rewarding to judge, says TERRY KELLY, with the perspective it gives across the varieties. And a trip to Belgium is always a treat, as well

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