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his is now the sixth edition of Bird Scene, how quickly a year goes when you are working on a new project, well not quite so new now – the first FREE on-line bird magazine produced in the UK. At 48 pages this is quite a big read! Every time we post the Parrot Society magazine I cringe at the cost and after the 30th April 2012 when postal costs increased further the distribution expenses have become very costly, I just do not know how smaller clubs with limited funds will be able to continue printing a members magazine, maybe E-magazines are the way to go? This must be a great worry to many club officials. An e-magazine does not have this problem, or the expense of colour printing and from a slightly technical viewpoint the images do not need to be of such high resolution as those required for a printed magazine. As a result of increases to the costs of both postage and printing I am really pleased that we decided to produce Bird Scene as a FREE e-magazine. We have learnt a great deal over the last twelve months about this way of communicating with


bird enthusiasts and I am sure that this knowledge will become more and more valuable as we see further increases in costs to paper magazines. Regular readers will know that Bird Scene has been produced to publicise The National Exhibition held each year at our October Sale Day/Show and to promote our Conservation efforts for threatened parrots in the wild. Previous editions are still to be found on the Home Page of our website and if you would like to see earlier versions there is an archive for Bird Scene at the bottom of the page. In this edition we have an excellent article on Humming Birds from Weltvogelpark Walsrode in Germany which I am sure you will find very interesting and inspirational. Also included following the success of the article on the breeding of the Violaceous Turaco by Geoff Bailey in issue 5 for all our readers that are interested in soft billed avicultural pursuits, is a report of breeding the Lady Ross Turaco (Musophaga rossae) at Cotswold Wildlife Park by Christopher Green, Bird Department,


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