Cage & Aviary Birds

Cage & Aviary Birds is written by bird experts for bird fanciers and is packed with club, show and bird related news, advice, birds for sale and comment. Established in 1902, Cage & Aviary Birds provides a wealth of practical advice and tips from the top names in the bird world, plus opinion, controversy, species and hobbyist profiles and nostalgia.

Maidstone Spring Sale has best-ever attendance

Updates to reporting dead wild birds

QUOTE of the WEEK

Also in the news…

Supplements improve lovebird health

Missing eagle had ‘come to harm’ say Police Scotland

Extinct in the wild Guam kingfisher chick hatches

FINCHES Plus

Compulsory registration: what the law says today • To complement his special letter in the May 15 issue, DONALD SKINNER-REID offers a legal overview of the impending APHA registration scheme. Note: final versions of the regulations are still awaited

Editor's Letter

Cage & Aviary Birds

Extras and treatments • To follow his article on feeding for budgies (see Cage & Aviary Birds, March 13), JON ASHBY explains his approach to dietary supplementation and basic medical products

Extras for canaries • This month, in place of his regular progress update, Andy reviews the products that he has used to give his Borders that extra boost they need beyond the basics of diet

Essential and optional extras • A range of additives is recommended by their manufacturers for exotic hardbills. All well and good, says DAVE BROWN – just make sure you understand what you are offering and why

Boosts for delicate birds • The use of additives is not highly formalised with softbills, says GARY BRALSFORD, but he has no doubt that some have proved their worth with his hugely varied stock down the years

Avian additives that put wellbeing first • Although OLIVER CROWTHER doesn't rely solely on supplements to keep his birds healthy, he says they're an important tool to have in the birdroom, particularly for the sensitive native species

Northumbrian Notes • This month, Austin looks back over the ‘additives’ he has used with his canaries and finches down the years, and assesses what worked, what didn't and what not to offer too much of

The roles of calcium and phosphorus • PAUL DONOVAN explains the scientific basis behind the workings of some of the most critical compounds that birdkeepers often provide to their stock in the form of supplements

Kruger day by day: a birdman's dream • In Cage & Aviary Birds February 7 and 21, DARREN SEFTON explained how simple it was to organise a self-drive visit to the fabulous Kruger NP last year. Now he describes the route that he and his wife took through the park and the birds they saw. (Plus an animal or two)

White, flightless and, sadly, gone • Progressive greying has been shown by HEIN VAN GROUW to explain the mystery of the London fancy canary's changing appearance through successive moults. It is in fact a well-known occurrence in the bird world. In the first of two articles, Hein introduces an example of progressive greying that could not be less like a canary

Why the long road is better than the short cut • ALAN MARCHANT reveals that it took him and Chris Huxley a decade of breeding high-quality birds before they won their first Championship Certificate. What's more, he wouldn't have had it any other way

Club News • Welcome to the club and show pages – the bit that's all about you

Roy's beautiful birds

Club roundup • Show reports, dates, club notices

READERS’ VISIT

What's on this Week • Club meetings nationwide