Above: Pleasing sideline: a 2019-bred black-faced silver mutation. Photo: Dave Brown DAVE BROWN is reaping the benefits of changes made to his birdroom, with some one hundred zebbie chicks already ringed. It’s just a shame about all the DIY…
Photo: Similar but different: the goldcrest (left) and firecrest are alike in size (the goldcrest being Britain’s smallest bird), but the firecrest is slightly bigger, sleeker, more colourful and less dumpy Bill Naylor profiles two of the UK’s smallest…
Photo: Dennis Avon. Geoff’s favourite: a male and female crimson-breasted finch (Rhodospingus cruentus) – or rhodospingus finch as he refers to it. He believes these birds need to be fed on a softbill diet to maintain their crimson cap and chest…
Photo: © Shutterstock.com/Paul Reeves Photography. The longevity record for wild Baltimore orioles is 11 years, in captivity they have been kept for more than 14 years Bright, tuneful and with an elegant mating display, the Baltimore oriole has lots going for…
Photo: Geoff Gradwell. Priceless memories: Geoff aged 11 with awards he had won as a junior. This was about the time that he joined the Foreign Bird League (FBL) After more than half a century of keeping, breeding and…
Photo: Dave Brown. So far this year, Dave has more than 60 chicks in the birdroom with a good few normals scattered about Things are going well in the birdroom for Dave Brown and he is making progress with his…
Photo: Tony Edwards. Tony had a major step forward with pink-eyed whites (albinos) in 2011 and usually gets good results from this colour. Early days, but the 2018 breeding season has proved fruitful for TONY EDWARDS, with certain colours doing…
Above: Lee Clarke with the partnership’s winning zebra finches at the Australian Finch Society’s members’ show in 2016 When LEE CLARKE decided to come back to birdkeeping after a break of nearly 20 years, he picked up straight where he left…
Photo: Dave Brown. Breeding is underway with the normals as Dave tries to enhance his line Heavy feather around the vent, late pairings, weight gain and human error were just some of the factors that made an appearance during Dave Brown’s…
Above: Chairman Dave Harris mans the AFS stand at the 2017 National Exhibition where it launched an English version of the Dutch book Australian finches and their mutations THE AUSTRALIAN FINCH Society (AFS) is appealing to members old and new to…