Above: Time to fledge: the parent blue-throated macaws encouraging their young to leave the nest-box and explore the reserve. Photo: Asociación Armonía THE 2018-2019 BREEDING season has seen a record number of Critically Endangered blue-throated macaw chicks (Ara glaucogularis)…
Above: For the diary: the show poster designed by one of the judges, Mario Zahra ONE OF THE founding fathers of the Gloster canary is to be spectacularly commemorated at a major new show later this year. On December…
Above: bird-of-prey expert Martin Ballam’s dream has become a reality, with the opening of the Dorset Falconry Park A NEW FALCONRY centre opened last month thanks to the vision of an entrepreneurial bird-of-prey expert and a six-figure funding package…
Above: This summer the puffin population will be severely depleted by a single rainstorm © Shutterstock.com/Attila JANDI EXTREME WEATHER DROWNED hundreds of young Farne Islands puffins when their burrows were flooded by almost five inches (12 cm) of rain…
Above: It is key for the success of the bird-of-prey scheme that landowners and their managers engage with it. Photo: North Yorkshire Police AN INITIATIVE TO protect birds of prey from persecution, which has been trialled in North Yorkshire…
Above: Young chicks like these Bengalese finches, similar to the ones left behind in Leslie Fry’s shed, will not survive without their parents to rear them. Photo: Tony Edwards DISABLED PENSIONER LESLIE Fry, an avid birdkeeper for 69 years,…
Above: The last known wild Spix’s macaw disappeared in October 2000 and, to this day, it is not known whether he died or was captured by humans. Photo: ACTP GLOBAL CONSERVATIONISTS AND the Brazilian Government have joined forces to…
Above: Longtail: welcome in the new classes at this year’s Western Premier Specialist & Rare Variety Budgerigar Show. Judge Jeff Attwood says longtail classes may not be as popular at rare variety shows, because clearwings, dilutes, recessive pieds etc, don’t…
Above: Welcomed package: three of the newly arrived St Lucia parrots at ACTP’s safety-net population in Germany. Photo: ACTP e.V Facebook Page A “PARCEL” OF parrots arrived in Germany recently to boost the numbers and gene pool of St…
Above: Both welcome (l-r): a colour-fed non cap gold cock Lizard bred by David Newton and a natural-coloured non cap gold cock Lizard bred by Huw Evans FOLLOWING A BREAK in 2018, the Lizard Canary Association (LCA) “Classic” is…