Cage & Aviary Birds Magazine

13 September 2023

It still feels like summer, but the National is just round the corner! This week’s 36-page special issue includes our traditional introduction and “what’s new” info so that you’ve got all you need to enjoy your visit to Stafford on October 1. We hear from the Parrot Society’s chairman Dave Dickason (a cage-bird man too) and Maddy Johnston of the National’s famous sponsor J&J. And we put the great event in context by jumping back 100 years to the birdkeeping scene of 1923, complete with rival claimants for the “National” crown. Also in your C&AB: English cinnamon canaries, finches, kingfishers (and how they dive), warblers (and how they warble), budgies – and a shocking story about how macaw thieves are threatening the work of top conservationists and breeders.