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.

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Cutias I have known • Gary Bralsford’s article about cutias in the February 19 Cage & Aviary Birds has prompted ROB INNES to revisit his own encounters – and also non-encounters – with this fabulous softbill of the Asian highlands

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A handsome and hands-on guide • DAVE BROWN recommends a high-quality new book on breeding zebra finches which is bang up to date and packed out with useful text and superb pictures

How I set up my all-wire breeding cages • Two weeks ago, NEIL CAWLEY gave us his reasons for having made the transition to wire cages. Now he demonstrates how he’s arranged and adapted them to his preferred usage

African birds at their peerless best • Continuing from last week, DARREN SEFTON tries to convey the fantastic avian riches of his latest visit to Kruger NP – often to be enjoyed most conveniently right on your doorstep

A West Coast beauty • The stunning California quail is deservedly popular with keepers and also has feral populations far beyond its natural range. BILL NAYLOR performs the introductions

East helps west with a parrot safety net • How might you learn how to breed an extremely rare parrot? Start by breeding a commoner species that’s very like it. DAVID WAUGH explains how a bit of lateral thinking could help one of Australia’s most elusive and threatened species

Signs before symptoms • We can’t all be bird doctors, but we can all use our eyes and learn from experience. That’s the key to detecting illness in any bird in our care, says PAUL DONOVAN

Q&A: mesh for psittacines • Cotsworld Wildlife Park professional birdkeeper CHRIS GREEN answers a reader query with advice on gauge, spacing and other mesh-related matters for psittacine species

Canaries Month by Month: APRIL • Unusually, this year BRIAN KEENAN’s Yorkshire canary room is well into breeding mode before Easter, although as he explains, his principles of good practice remain unaltered

Leucistic goldfinch and redpoll gallery • Following his articles in Cage & Aviary Birds March 19 and 26, that explain the genetic condition known as leucism, HEIN VAN GROUW comments on some examples of this variation in two favourite native finches. It will be seen that leucism underlies both ‘pied’ and ‘dark-eyed white’ forms of the finches

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