A Little Cracker

In Cage and Aviary birds this week...

... not much about cage and aviary birds. There's rather a lot about wild birds - these folks are genuine bird enthusiasts. So there's news about birds' intelligence, Song Sparrows suppressing sickness during breeding, declinign wild birds and conservation, Black-billed Magpies and their undeserved bad reputation, White-breasted Dippers, and a page about bill morphology and adaptations. Three cheers.

Bird joke of the week... a boy took his parrot to the vet because it was unwell. The vet said: "Yes, I can see the problem. It has a millet spray up one nostril, a carrot stick under its wing and sunflower seeds all over its head. It's obviously not eating properly."

For sale:
Not much of interest to us. Except...
Long-tailed Rosefinch, cock, £70
(I wonder how much the rest of it costs? - boom BOOM!)
I might have said this before, but I think L-t rosefinch is a potential vagrant. breeds in the Western Pal, follows an E-W migration - bound to overshoot into Western Europe some spring.

Also, for reasons I can't begin to imagine, they have given enormous prominence to this photograph of a gorgeous young Humboldt Penguin. A phone number too, if you want to get more information.