FEATURE
SHOW CLASSIFICATION The NBFA has encouraged the keeping and exhibition of Bengalese finches for over 50 years. Bengalese are normally shown as matched pairs although single bird classes are included at larger shows. The standard NBFA classification now comprises eleven colour classes with a further class for crested birds (one crested and one without a crest) of any colour. It is:- • Chocolate and White • Fawn and White • Chestnut and White • Variegated Dilutes (today Dilute Fawns and Whites only)
• Any Other Colour Variegated (including other dilutes)
• Self Chocolate • Self Fawn (including pastels/dilutes ) • Self Chestnut (including pastels/ dilutes)
• Self Grey (including pastels/dilutes) • Self White (both birds to be the same eye colour)
• Any Other Colour Self (including Pearls)
• Crested (one crested and one non- crested bird)
SHOW SEASON The Bengalese show season is usually from late July to early January. There are now two shows promoted by the NBFA. The ‘All Bengalese Club Show’, usually hosted by an area or specialist society or run by the NBFA itself, but now any club or society can be considered to host the NBFA Club Show, independently or in conjunction with their own show. When the Parrot Society offered the opportunity for the NBFA to stage a Bengalese section at their Show Stafford in October it was gladly accepted. The NBFA has now labelled its section ‘The Bengalese National’. The entry has grown slowly, proving to be very popular and now attracts the largest numbers of Bengalese at any show. I believe that the 2011 entry was much larger than any entry at the Cage and Aviary Birds National Bird Show.
VARIEGATED (PIED) BENGALESE The mechanisms that control the amount of white feathers on a pied bird are not fully understood, although they can be attributed to different key genes and other genes (often referred to as
Fawn & White variegated Bengalese were also first imported into Europe in the 19th Century. Cinnamon was sometimes used to describe their colour. The fawn colour should be deep and even. Genetically the chocolate colour in Bengalese is dominant to fawn.
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