Cage & Aviary Birds Magazine No.5801 Perfect in Pink Back Issue

THERE’S LOTS TO be said for a four-day week such as the one following a Bank Holiday, but there’s been so much going on in the bird world that it’s been quite tricky trying to cram it all in. First, here’s something in the nature of a Stop Press. Last week we reported that the popular Wingz
sanctuary in Cornwall had been reluctantly put up for sale by its hardworking owners, Grenville and Anita Allen. Now we’ve just learned that the Allens have decided not to try and sell, but intend to mortgage their home in order to keep the sanctuary.
We’ll feature more details as they emerge, but in the meantime we have everything crossed for Grenville and Anita and wish them extremely well.
The same goes for the members of the newly formed Dumfries Zebra & Foreign Finch Club, which has just announced the details of its debut open show in a region that’s gratifying rich in finch-keepers. (See story on
page 2.) Says club founder Allan Beattie: “We hope to take the hobby [in this area] into the 21st century – without the politics!” Well said indeed,
Mr Beattie, and I wish you well on both counts. The political aspect of the fancy is not entirely absent, I suspect, from the continuing controversy over natural coloured lizard canaries, to which the distinguished lizard breeder Huw Evans contributes with a detailed letter on this page. This historic and beautiful variety certainly generates
strong opinions. I’d welcome further comments from the lizard fancy, of course, so long as they stick to our two rules: 1. If you make a criticism, propose a solution; and 2. Issues not personalities, please. Somehow I’m not surprised to learn that there’s DNA evidence that lonely parrots die young (see News, page 3). Will further studies follow, I wonder – and conceivably result in a change in the law?
Enjoy your birds this week.