The LCA Classic 2022, part 2
Here are more photos of the birds and the people at the show. Just click on any of the thumbnails for a larger image.... Read More
Lizard show
LCA Classic 2021
It may be two years since the last Lizard Classic, but the LCA had put the time to good use. The show retained most of its tried and tested format, but there were innovations too. We had new staging; a much simpler two-tier assembly that is easier to store, transport and assemble than the […]... Read More
Club Amigos Del Canario Lizard show 2021
The 2021 Amigos show was held in Cartagena, a naval city just one hour’s drive from Alicante airport. We loved it; a city with a long history, some beautiful architecture, and free of the tourist tat that blights so many Spanish seaside resorts. My thanks to Jesús Ortiz García (better known as Yopi) and his […]... Read More
National Exhibition 2021: the Lizard canaries
Business as usual? Not quite. There were obvious signs that 2021 was a transitional year; the covid lockdown had cast its shadow over the event. There were plenty of visitors, but not the crush of previous years; there were fewer trade stands in the sales halls and fewer rows of staging in the exhibition hall. […]... Read More
Lizards at the National Exhibition during the 1950s
No other show has played such an important part in the affairs of the Lizard Canary Association as the National Exhibition (1). Sponsored by Cage Birds magazine (as it was then known), it was the ‘National’ that gave the nascent LCA the opportunity to demonstrate to the world its determination to save the oldest breed […]... Read More
LCA Classic 2019, part 2: a judging tutorial
My guest contributor this week is David Allen, who judged the Lizards at the LCA Classic. Here he explains how he went about his task and describes some of the finer details he looks for in the Lizard canary.... Read More
The Greatest Show on Earth?
Regular readers of this blog may remember my effusive account of the Club Amigos del Canario Lizard show which I published one year ago. That event attracted over 300 Lizard canaries plus the Ocelados (1). It was a memorable event. Could this year’s show improve on that remarkable gathering? Yes! I Show Nacional del Canario Lizard, […]... Read More