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.

Adrian Richards honoured with BS’s 2026 Silver Bird

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PARROTS & PEOPLE

Who are ‘the greatest’ in birdkeeping?

Editor’s Letter

Cage & Aviary Birds

Toucans: a feast of colours • ROSEMARY LOW reviews a superb recently translated volume which presents a summary of the known information about this magnificent bird family

Q&A: Aidan Yule, part 2 • Following the first part of his interview last week, Scottish breeder/exhibitor AIDAN YULE talks us through the set-up of his newly expanded birdroom and the feeding régime that fuels his successful stud of budgerigars

Andy Rodger: retired too soon! • RYAN WOOD pays tribute to a Fife fancy great, with whom he enjoyed many seasons as a formidable show partnership

Spirit of the ploughland • Few birdkeepers will know the northern lapwing from aviculture, where other related species predominate. But nearly all know and love it in life – or used to, before modern farming squeezed it out. The loss is ours, for it’s an enchanting bird, as BILL NAYLOR confirms

Motions that speak louder than words • A bird’s neck doesn’t merely join its head to its body. As we shall see, it provides important functions in communication, courtship, and behaviour. PAUL DONOVAN reports

Strength in numbers • Champion exhibitor STUART MASON discusses the pros and cons of partnership, with specific reference to the Border canary fancy, which abounds in well-known alliances

To criticise the critics • The fancy – and the world – are worse places because people feel that by writing an online comment they have ‘solved’ something or ‘done’ something. Wake up, says DAVE BROWN

READERS’ GALLERY

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

IGBA: how does the future look? • INTERNATIONAL GLOSTER BREEDERS ASSOCIATION

What’s on

NBFA changes • NATIONAL BENGALESE FANCIERS ASSOCIATION

OPEN SHOWS 2026/27

Club roundup • Show reports, dates, club notices