SO THERE’S AN extra lot of pages in this Cage & Aviary Birds, and (as I write) I don’t mind admitting I’ll breathe easier when it’s gone off to the printers. We have hugely enjoyed putting this special issue together.…
WHEN HE FIRST met his wife, he somehow managed to build an indoor aviary in the home of his future mother-in-law before the couple married.” Way to go, Roger Denyer! (See profile, page 8.) That’s how a true fancier approaches…
SO IT’S TIME to plan your visit to, or better still, show entry for Stafford on October 7. It’s interesting: when I was looking up the 1933 National Show for Terry Jukes’s letter (left), I noticed that the benched entry…
WARM CONGRATULATIONS TO the two newest members of the NCA’s Hall of Fame (see page 4). Here is my completely personal take on their achievements. Rosemary Low is, of course, a long-standing and hugely valued contributor to these pages. What…
WHAT, FOR YOU, represents the essence of the exhibition hobby? We’ll all have our different opinions. I can honestly say I enjoy every section in a show. There aren’t any duds. But as a private individual, above all I love…
MANAKINS, MANNIKINS OR mannequins? In certain articles submitted to C&AB the spelling has been no guide as to which, er, family is under discussion. We’ll leave the third lot out of it because we all know their place is not…
THE LETTER FROM Nigel Hewston (below, left) touches on a subject I’d thought about, but really shied away from: that of “stress” in the life of birds. With people, stress gets a bad press: it’s linked to all manner of…
NICK ELLISTON DRAWS our attention (letter, left) to Geoff Gradwell’s prescience in proposing that certain New World “finches” (hardbills) are better thought of as tanagers (softbills). Science, in the form of molecular studies, has subsequently confirmed the conclusions of the…
WHAT’S THE BEST way to breed more large canaries? Get hold of some small canaries. This paradox is stated and discussed persuasively by Brian Keenan on page 10. What he’s saying, of course, is that you have a better chance…
SO NON-COLOUR-FED Lizard canaries are set to make a return to the British show bench (News, page 2). It’s a move that will certainly raise eyebrows in the Lizard fancy, and I very much hope that it does not also…