Above: A total of 292 rose-ringed parakeets – adults and chicks – one Asian koel and one common hill myna were confiscated from traders at Galiff Street Sunday Pet Market in West Bengal. Photo: Wildlife Crime Control Bureau, Government of India/Facebook…
Above: this song thrush cock of T. & S. Paterson had won top awards at Ollerton & Bevercotes CBS’s 2018 open show, but was stolen during the Easter Bank Holiday weekend A STUD OF exhibition softbills in South Yorkshire…
Above: The red-headed finch has been chosen as the 2019 WFS Target Species. Only four were bred by WFS members in 2018 © Shutterstock.com/Tobie Oosthuizen THE WAXBILL FINCH Society (WFS) has issued its 2018 breeding records and announced its…
Above: a grass parakeet and a conure at the World Show in Holland this year. Fanciers who transport their own birds to other shows on the Continent have to deal with a shortage of clear advice concerning paperwork. This APHA…
Above: Outgoing NCA president David Paine (left) with the new president Bernard Williams Photo: Ghalib Al-Nasser THE NATIONAL COUNCIL for Aviculture (NCA) has inaugurated its new president for 2019/20 – British bird expert Bernard Williams. On April 6, at…
Above, One of the recently released red-masked parakeets in the Reserve of Buenaventura. TWENTY NEAR THREATENED parakeets that were confiscated from poachers have been successfully reintroduction back into the wild in Ecuador. The red-masked parakeets (Psittacaa erythrogenyrs) are now…
Above: Chairman and show manager of the Swindon All Gloster Canary Club, Kevin McCarthy (left) with president Mike Palmer, who has generously sponsored the purchase of the new club rosettes. A NEW GLOSTER canary club has re-formed in…
Above: Some of the stolen birds. Have you been offered fantails recently, perhaps in the Derby area? All photos: Marcus Conner RECENTLY REHOMED FANTAIL pigeons were stolen from a Derby rescue centre, just a week after their owner had…
Above: Leonard Devall, 35, admitted to keeping wild goldfinches (example pictured) in his home © Shutterstock.com/colin robert varndell A MAN FROM Kent has admitted to handling British birds and canaries stolen from a fancier who had died just days…
Above: thousands of ‘pest’ birds, such as jackdaws, are killed each year under a general licence NEW CONSERVATION GROUP Wild Justice – founded by Chris Packham, Mark Avery and Ruth Tingay – is crowdfunding an action in court against…