UK birdkeepers no longer need to sign a “21-day” declaration with regards to Newcastle Disease after the government relaxed the risk level from medium to low.
A new British bird club has formed in response to next month’s South-Eastern Classic Bird Show and Sale, presented by Cage & Aviary Birds.
Video footage showing the chase for an owl killer has been released by the RSPB, following a successful court case.
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Above: Plastic split rings. Photo: Ivan Chapman/BCCC Colour canary champion exhibitor IVAN CHAPMAN explains his approach to placing split rings on his young birds, and talks us through this process step by step. It doesn‘t need to be fiddly!…
Above: The victim: buzzards habitually use posts or poles as vantage points to watch for prey For all the conservation successes, Britain’s raptors are still routinely persecuted – and this is a systematic campaign that isn’t dying out. GRAHAM…
Above: a lightback and normal still in the nest. The normal has a promising head An unproblematic early breeding season isn’t at all what DAVE BROWN is used to, so he’s enjoying a relative deluge of chicks – while…
Above: Say what? Despite its name, the California quail’s call is often transcribed Chi-ca-go! Photo: Chris Green Quite easy to keep, and a doddle to breed, here’s a gamebird that will draw admiring looks from your aviary visitors, reckons CHRIS GREEN.…
Above: Red-crested turaco (Tauraco erythrolophus): Louise Peat is the European studbook keeper for this widespread tropical African bird. Although it is of Least Concern, captive studies have, she reports, yielded much fruitful information on other turaco species that are more…
