Editor's Letter returns next week I HAVE read with interest a number of your letters and articles regarding registration with APHA. I have been registered with APHA for more than two years without any real problems. In September 2021, I moved house a

I WONDER how many novice bird people have persuaded themselves that the bird they'd just seen wasn't a bearded tit, as it was only sporting a moustache? Its more descriptive name, originating in Norfolk, is “reedling” and despite (in the UK) once bei

NORTHERN PARROTS IS offering two lucky people the chance to win a pair of tickets to the Think Parrots show at Kempton Park Racecourse in Sunbury-onThames, Surrey, on June 9, 2024. At the 2024 event, professional bird trainer, Craig Fraser Young, wil

THE society members met at the Park Golf Club on March 19, 2024 for a 2023-ringed bird knockout competition. A total of 31 birds were benched and members took turns to judge the rounds. It was the novice partnership of Chris & Roy Clarke who took hom

IN MY last article (Cage & Aviary Birds, April 3), I mentioned some of the positives that had occurred in my birdroom during the current breeding season. I am pleased to say that with some colours the results have continued to be promising and that w

THIRTY-FIVE members and guests of South West Lancs BS welcomed Robert Hughes, Dave Cotterall and Gwyn Williams to the March meeting, held at Padgate Community Centre Padgate, Warrington, on March 10, 2024. On the agenda was a talk and slide show by D

IN EASTERN Europe, probably in the 1970s, a different pied mutation to that described last week appeared, and was given the meaningless name “Californian” by the German fancier A. Münst. This represents a different form of leucism, in which the patte

THE day finally arrived, and the North frills were paired up. Well, when I say “day”… This year, pairing has shown itself to be a more gradual process. In previous recent seasons, the birds have all come into condition virtually together and, as a co