Above: Although owner Dillon Prest has celebrated the safe return of Burt and Daisy, two more parrots – a blue-and-gold macaw pair – are still missing TWO PETSHOP PARROTS have been recovered alive in a cardboard box almost a…
Above: Anticipation mounts: the audience (can you spot yourself?) await the final judging of the 2017 show, which was won by Ady Lovack’s light green LESS THAN THREE weeks. That’s all you have left to get your entries in…
Above: A blackened trunk is just the home for a black-backed woodpecker. Forest fires are part of nature but are becoming more extensive – and more comprehensive – with climate change. Photo: Jean Hall FOREST FIRES ARE just part of…
Above: Layton School’s Year Five teacher Mr Snelling (left) with pupils and Harry from Blackpool Zoo’s education team at the Conservation Station LOCAL SCHOOLCHILDREN’S PASSION for Blackpool Zoo’s threatened Asian songbirds has got them singing. During the last term…
Above: Bee-eater: a classic example of a bird now seen regularly to the north of its traditional Mediterranean range. Photo: Elgollimoh, CC BY-SA 3.0 POPULAR ONLINE RESOURCES have helped scientists determine that climate change is responsible for displacing certain…
Above: El Oro parakeet: a rare and shy species. No more than 1,500 individuals may persist, and possibly as few as 350. Photo: Emma Steigerwald THE ILLEGAL PARROT trade in the bird-rich nation of Ecuador has declined steeply…
Above: Photo: Don Dickson. One of Don’s Venezuelan blackwing budgerigar chicks: an opaline skyblue A SPECIALIST BUDGERIGAR breeder from Edinburgh has achieved the first UK import and breeding of a rare mutation – the Venezuelan blackwing. (This first breeding…
Above: In 2015, the BS recognised Mr Binks’s contribution to the hobby over a period of 70 years by awarding him the Silver Bird. BS president Bev Hutt (left) presents the trophy to Gerald Binks and his wife Joyce …
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…