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    • 1: The St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre
    • 2: The Sun King
    • 3: the refugee’s tale
    • 4: the Last of France
    • 5: the Huguenot legend and the comfort of opinion
    • 6: the canary at the dawn of ornithology
    • 7: German Birds
    • 8: the oiseleurs of Paris
    • 9: the turn of the century
    • 10: a dozen things you probably didn’t know about Hervieux
    • 11: Hervieux’s list
    • 12: Rudolf Galloway’s theory
    • 13: Galloway & the Lizard canary
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    • Part 1: a learning process
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    • Part 5: the perfect cap
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Author: Huw Evans

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Club Amigos del Canario Lizard show 2018

Posted on 09/11/2018 by Huw Evans 5 Comments
The Lizard canary show scene has taken me to ten different countries, all of them with their own character, and all of them enjoyable, yet I have never experienced anything quite like the Club Amigos del Canario Lizard show.... Read More
Posted in General, Lizard canary, ShowsTagged Amigos Best in Show Lizard canary Lizard show
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Lizarddag 2018

Posted on 31/10/2018 by Huw Evans 2 Comments
Football commentators are rather fond of describing a match as ‘a game of two halves’; a statement of the obvious.... Read More
Posted in Galleries, General, Lizard canary, London Fancy, ShowsTagged Bart Deckers Best in Show Fernand Moes Jules Etienne Keijenborg Lizard canary Lizard show Lizarddag London Fancy Marko Dielen
National 2018 Best unflighted AE-FSS National 2018 Best LF AE-FSS National 2018 Best jonque in 2017 AE-FSS National 2018 AE & BH-FSS National 2018 LFs & BH-FI

The National Exhibition 2018: the London Fancies

Posted on 14/10/2018 by Huw Evans 5 Comments
There was a smaller display of London Fancies than we have seen in recent years, but to quote the old cliché, the quality of the birds more than compensated for the quantity (or lack of it).... Read More
Posted in General, London Fancy, ShowsTagged Andy Early Bernard Howlett Best in Show LFCC London Fancy national show
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The National Exhibition 2018

Posted on 11/10/2018 by Huw Evans 3 Comments
The 2018 show season is under way!  ... Read More
Posted in General, Lizard canary, ShowsTagged Best in Show Lizard canary Lizard show National Exhibition
LF on TV

TV celebrity show

Posted on 27/03/201827/03/2018 by Huw Evans Leave a comment
Starring the London Fancy with a supporting cast of Piet Renders and Theo Minten at the Meijels Pracht show, the Netherlands.  Click on the video below:  ... Read More
Posted in Ephemera, General, London Fancy, People, ShowsTagged Best in Show London Fancy Piet Renders
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Tish Harnett R.I.P.

Posted on 24/02/201824/02/2018 by Huw Evans 6 Comments
I have received the sad news that Tish Harnett has died after a long illness.... Read More
Posted in General, Lizard canary, PeopleTagged Coquet Ernesto Benussi IOA Lizard canary
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The road to Cesena, Part 2

Posted on 19/02/2018 by Huw Evans 4 Comments
For many British breeders, the World Show has replaced the old National Exhibition of Cage & Aviary Birds (1) as the climax of the Lizard canary show season.  Of the 34 breeders from Great Britain who competed at Cesena, no less than eight entered birds in the Lizard classes. ... Read More
Posted in Lizard canary, ShowsTagged Lizard canary World Show

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