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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 two years 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 in an archive at the foot of the Home Page of our website and if you would like to see earlier versions then do please visit the Bird scene archive. In this edition we have an excellent article on the use of wire and plastic cages for canaries very well written by David Allen and enthusiastic breeder of Lizard canaries, the longest established variety of canary. Also included are the minutes of a meeting


held at Coventry on 28th April of the Organising Committee for The National Exhibition that will be held at Stafford on Sunday 13th October. Unfortunately there seems to be a spate of thefts mainly from exhibitors keeping valuable show birds, please see the advice that John Hayward gives on this serious problem. This item appeared in issue 11 of Bird scene but I make no apology for printing it again as it is such an important area and if it helps save a hobbyist bird breeder’s collection it will be space very well used. In this Issue I have included an interesting article ‘Foreign Bird Keeping’ by very experienced contributor Jerry Fisher and the first part of an article by Dot Schwarz ‘Rehabilitating Rescued and Rehomed Amazons is so Rewarding’ this is an excellent article for all with an interest in pet birds. In this edition is an update regarding the Major Mitchell’s Cockatoo project that tins trees to protect them from attacks by Goannas in Australia and gives details of how this system is being ‘copied’ to aid other endangered cockatoo species in that country.


BIRD SCENE 5


BY THE EDITOR


LES RANCE


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