Les Rance, Editor, The Parrot Society UK |
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African Grey parrots that had been added to Annex ‘A’ of CITES on 4th February 2017 and we are still advising people on what is required from DEFRA to ensure that all Greys that are sold have the correct Article 10 papers. If you are thinking of buying an African Grey you must ensure it comes with the yellow CITES documentation, it is an offence to buy a Grey if it is not correctly licenced. At this time last year we were still experiencing Avian Flu and the whole country was classified as a Protection zone, but fortunately this did not affect Sales Days of hobbyist breeding stock. It seems that chickens, ducks, geese and swans are the birds most at risk from contracting Avian Flu. Dare I mention Brexit? At this time last year I wrote ‘What is starting to interest us is the affects that Brexit will have on bird keepers and the possibility that quarantine will be re-imposed on birds coming from mainland Europe. This would make quite a difference for companies who import birds for the pet industry as at the present time, as far as I am aware, there are no functioning quarantine stations for birds in the UK. These facilities can be quite expensive
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elieve it or not, it is now just over two years since the up-listing of
to both build and maintain and therefore anyone thinking of building one will obviously think very carefully before they go down that route. This may well mean a dire shortage of stock for the pet trade.’ Really at the time of writing this Introduction on 22nd February 2019 nothing is any clearer! The weather is being very kind to us with a temperature today of 14C but I am fairly sure it will not last, at present a strong Jet Stream is dragging heat up from the Canary Isles and the Caribbean and everything is pleasantly warm, it is certainly exciting my birds. Bird keeping is a relaxing past-time, however, for hobbyist breeders that keep their birds in unheated aviaries through the poor weather experienced this winter it can also be a worrying time, let us hope that we do not experience a cold period that lasts into spring. Those who keep their stock in breeding rooms where they can easily turn up the heating however are in a far more satisfactory position. In this edition of Bird Scene we are very pleased to have two excellent articles on Finches. ‘An Avicultural Favourite – The Cuban Finch skilfully written by Graeme Hyde and the second ‘Red- bellied Fire Finches in Bush and Aviary’ by Russell Kingston. part of ‘A
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