Above, exploring: Endangered Lear’s macaws unhurriedly contemplate the habitat just outside the aviary SIX ENDANGERED LEAR’S macaws (Anodorhynchus leari) have been released back into their native habitat in north-eastern Brazil by a conservation charity. The Loro Parque Foundation, based…
Above, Three of the 12 recipients: 1. For achievements to the British bird world, Bob Partridge (right), pictured with IOA president Richard Lumley, is one of the few people still alive to have helped draft the Wildlife and Countryside Act…
Above, Police were supplied with images of some of the stolen birds, which included a goldfinch and two pied bullfinchs POLICE HAVE WARNED rural birdkeepers to be vigilant after three men were arrested following a string of British bird…
Above, Steve Pritchard, of Cavcott Glosters and competition organiser, said: ‘Nick and I were blown away by Tony Keane’s letter and that he sent an additional payment giving someone an opportunity of a ‘free’ book. The two charities mean so…
Above, Once found across northern New Zealand, the hihi or stitchbird is now classed as locally extinct across most of its former range, due to habitat loss and fragmentation and the spread of non-native invasive mammal predators. SCIENTISTS HAVE…
Above: L-r: society president Roger Tippett awards Barbara Sparrow the Meritorious Award, with society chairman Fred Smith. ALMOST 500 BIRDS were bred in 2018 from Severn Counties Foreign & British Bird Society (SCF&BBS) members – with many species increasing…
Above, Grimmer & Hornby partnership: runners-up in the Fife Fancy Federation Novice Fancier of the Year award. Left: Jimmy Roberts winning best novice at the National Exhibition in 2018. He also won FFF Novice Fancier of the Year THE…
Above, Minsmere’s unique mix of reedbeds, lowland wet grassland, shingle vegetation and lowland heath provide valuable habitats for a huge array of wildlife and are of vital conservation importance. Photo: David Tipling/rspb-images.com THE RSPB IS appealing for the public…
Above, The Bowker aviary in May 2015. The BS is confident that members throughout the country will support the family; Richard Bowker told C&AB that some have already offered birds from their bloodline back One of the top budgerigar…
Above: Long-eared owls (Asio otus) are among owl species that have been observed at Misson Carr AS IT BRITISH owls don’t have enough to deal with as the breeding season approaches, those living on a Nottinghamshire nature reserve will have…