Cage & Aviary Birds Magazine

3 January 2024

If you’re a waterfowl fan you’ll love our cover bird, the pint-sized but wondrously patterned red-breasted goose. Read about its amazing lifestyle (when nesting, fierce birds of prey are its best friends!) and find out how straightforward the species is to keep. Tempting, isn’t it? Then you can turn to a lovely warm feelgood story to start the year, and find out how two precious macaws escaped and were returned to their distraught owner, after five months of wandering! Biologist Paul Donovan explains why inbreeding in birds has actually helped certain wild populations. And on the domestic front we hear from expert breeders and show judges of canaries, budgies and more. Welcome to 2024!