CONTENTS BIRD SCENE FEBRUARY / MARCH 2012 CONTENTS 06 BREEDING RED AND


YELLOW BARBETS Colin Scott gives us his experiences of breeding these rarely seen softbills- an excellent article.


06 12 PHASE II


Kevin Pickup describes the building of his new aviary complex with good quality images.


28 CONSERVATION OF 12


THE SCARLET MACAW An interesting update of Parrot Society involvement in Costa Rica by Tony Pittman.


36 NATIONAL


EXHIBITION Les Rance gives more details of the 2011 event.


40 INTEREST GROUPS 40


Jerry Fisher extols the benefits of Interest Groups to help find and obtain the harder to obtain species.


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BREEDING RED AND YELLOW BARBETS


by Colin Scott PHASE II:


An interesting article by Kevin Pickup on building aviaries for his collection.


NATIONAL EXHIBITION:


CONSERVATION


An article by Les Rance on the 2012 event.


SCARLET MACAWS IN COSTA RICA


BY TONY PITTMAN 40


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