Above: No Club Show for a second year… however, the BS has announced a spring event to ‘kick start’ the show season in 2022, to be organised by the Club Show management team. Dave Hislop said: ‘The decision reached regarding…
Above: the top two placings in February’s online Points Cup. Entries increased from nine in January 2020 (physical meeting) to a record 44 in December 2020 (online show) THE 2021 POINTS Cup kicked off for Norfolk FBA members last…
Above: sharing the care of young between parents and helpers may also promote more social behaviour in the family group, researchers say © Shutterstock.com/COULANGES ELDERLY SEYCHELLES WARBLERS with young chicks should be more inclined to recruit helpers in order…
Above: both Mr Berrill (left) and Mr Finn (right) continue to develop the Stafford breed and will offer advice to the BCCC where necessary THE BRITISH COLOUR Canary Club (BCCC) has adopted the Stafford canary under its umbrella, following…
Above: canary theft victim Mark Denton (left) with foreign bird keeper Ron Chamberlain at the 2018 New Chiltern Inter Club open show. Mr Denton’s stolen birds are either 2020 NCA closed-ringed with the code ‘NCA 266’ or IOA ‘291’ closed-ringed…
Does your bird feature in the new stamp collection? Let us know: birds.news@kelsey.co.uk A NEW EXHIBITION-BIRD stamp collection featuring the work of British photographer Luke Stephenson is available to buy from next week. Titled Show Birds, the six-stamp set…
Overwhelming response (above): the top prize with the most amount of raffle tickets sold was this skyblue cock budgerigar from Swiss breeder Daniel Lütolf. This bird sold an incredible 1,646 tickets and the winning ticket belonged to Susan Howes FIVE…
Above: new research has found that zebra finches can identify at least 50 members of their flock from their signature sounds up to a month later. © Shutterstock.com/Chris Watson ZEBRA FINCHES ARE quick learners when it comes to language.…
Above: A non-migratory fork-tailed flycatcher. Photo: Alex Jahn THE TINY TROPICAL fork-tailed flycatcher (Tyrannus savana) is known to rustle its wings to communicate, but two subspecies “speak” in different dialects, new research has found. T. s. monachus spends all…
Above: ‘We’ve been promoted’: an adult and young P. poncetiion South Georgia. The four gentoo penguin species will receive vernacular (English) names if the research conclusions are confirmed. Photo: Gemma Lucas NUMBERS OF PENGUIN species have just increased from…