Cage & Aviary Birds Magazine

6 September 2023

“A breath of fresh air” is how many described the new son-and-dad budgie partnership of Hartlepool’s Tom and Kevin Smith – meaning, they’re top guys as well as successful ones! We catch up with them this week and check on the progress of their famous winning cock bird “Caruso”. Staying with budgies, we hear the powerful and moving account of how one of the true budgerigar greats, Alan Marchant, decided to bring his fantastic career to a close. Not to be missed. At the other end of his career is Rich Nightingale, who is energetically leading a new generation of canary breeders in reviving the English cinnamon, one of our most charismatic old varieties. Fifes, Glosters, British finches and South American waterfowl round out a memorable issue.