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…
ALL OF A sudden, people are talking about this year’s breeding season in the past tense. Regular contributor Donald Skinner-Reid, for one, compares his 2018-bred canaries with the 2017 vintage on page 11. True, a cold-eyed comparison, honestly weighing up…
WHAT AN ENJOYABLE day out we all had at Birdworld (see News, page 3). Thanks to Duncan Bolton and his team for their hospitality, and to all those readers, colleagues and others for their company. The total C&AB gang must…
MR DOVEASTON (LETTER, left) asks some pertinent questions about the new law on rodenticides. The legislation changed on March 1 this year, as required by the European Chemicals Agency, and basically the level of active ingredient in rodenticides available to…
THANKS TO READERS for their feedback on my advice about GDPR compliance for clubs and societies (see Editor’s Letters, May 23, May 30 and June 6 issues). One extra matter that’s become apparent concerns the requirement for clubs to obtain…
LAST WEEK I recommended some wording for a simple Privacy Policy that clubs and societies could adapt in order to comply with the recently introduced General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). That wording related to club members and the info that…
AS MENTIONED LAST week, I’ve worked with our company consultant on some wording for a sample Privacy Policy to help clubs comply with the new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Here’s the draft wording for ordinary club members. Next week…
THIS MONTH, THE new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) becomes law: that’s why, if you are on a commercial mailing list, you’ll have been asked to sign up for it again under new conditions. Bird clubs will also need to…
WE ARE SPOILED for choice in this hobby: just think of the innumerable varieties, colours and species that are available to keep us happy. And yet there’s a huge tranche of birds that, by and large, remain beyond our reach.…
GREAT NEWS HAS come from the recent Budgerigar Society (BS) spring event at Scotch Corner. Best in show was awarded to current BS world champion Ady Lovack with his seemingly unbeatable light green cock: the bird’s 11th best-in-show win. Ady…