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Photo: © Shutterstock.com/BFSmith. Kea: notoriously inquisitive, this species suffers from being offered unsuitable food. It’s now officially Endangered Individual bird breeders must be involved more in essential conservation projects – zoos aren’t enough, argues David LET’S set the scene…
Photo: Gerhard Gellinger. Paul discusses how birds have evolved to build nests In the first of three articles on nesting, Paul Donovan investigates how the technique of incubation has evolved SOMETHING we take for granted in bird behaviour is…
Photo: Sander van Duuren. Andean cock-of-the-rock (Rupicola peruvianus): ‘One of my favourite species, photographed at Weltvogelpark Walsrode,’ Sander says Dutch bird man Sander van Duuren explains how a delight in seeing ‘new’ species in aviculture has led him to a…
Photo: Paul Donovan. Who’s who(poe)? Upupa (the hoopoes) is a well-defined genus since nothing else looks like a hoopoe! Moving on from where our birds’ Latin names first evolved, PAUL DONOVAN next discusses the basics of classification with a guide to…
Photo: Ernesto Gracia. All-wire show cages stretch into the middle distance! This year, a piece of exhibition history was made at the World Show in Cesena, Italy, which posted a serious claim to be the greatest bird show of all time.…
Photo: © Shutterstock.com/John Williams RUS. You don’t need to be a city slicker to handle club cash, but you do need to be 100 per cent honest when dealing with the club finances A good club treasurer is most certainly an officer…
Above: Strix nebulosa, the magnificent great grey owl: other owls in the genus Strix share obvious resemblances. Isn’t a bird a bird without giving it a foreign-sounding scientific name? Paul Donovan explains why those awkward Latin tags help us to think…
Photo: © Shutterstock.com/Marion Smith. Cape sugarbird: a cock bird typically perching on a flowerhead How do you cope when you’re confronted with a whole new world of birds? Rob Innes ponders the question after a debut visit to South Africa. NOVEMBER 2017: my…
Above: At bird shows, colourful species such as finches, waxbills, rosellas and colour budgerigars seem to interest hobbyists and non-birdkeepers more so than exhibition budgies or canaries. Does the established format of the bird exhibition need a bit of a redesign?…
Above: A pair of orange-breasted chestnut-flanked white (CFW) zebra finches. Dave’s coveted pair also had the black-breasted mutation, an uncommon and interesting combination. Of course they had to be the ones to fall victim to rodents! Take your eye fractionally…