David Urmston

In some peoples’ eyes, this is a rather nondescript little bird whose unmusical song, though not unpleasant to the ear, has none of the attraction of many of its cousins ...

Following on from very many years (centuries in some instances) of the depletion of nature across countries and continents, there has arisen a growing trend to attempt to restore the ...

Man’s ability to control his/her environment has followed many diverse routes including shaping plants and animals. One of the more bizarre developments has been the urge to breed a ‘red’ ...

The wild budgerigar has a very long history, though confined to the one continent of Australia. It is a small grass parakeet that is found widely throughout the country though ...

The name ‘posture’ tends to be utilized to refer to all canaries that are bred more for their shape than for their color or song. For the purposes of this ...

The London Fancy canary is nothing if not an enigma. Doubts have even been expressed as to whether this ancient breed did ever exist as a distinct breed of canary ...

To begin with, the song was important because these birds were to be sold into the pet market, where people would keep possibly a single bird to provide some form ...

With the onset of the Industrial Revolution in the UK, there was a relatively rapid migration of people from the countryside into the towns. There were several reasons for this, ...