Does anyone read Cage and Aviary Birds?

[Marianne Marlow]

Just wondered if anyone has a subscription or reads it?

I recently signed up for one and wrote a message to the editor about an article they printed a couple of weeks ago showing a collection of dead canaries at the Natural History Museum which I found upsetting.

The editor wrote a response to my email in his "Editor's Letter" column in this weeks issue: Issue 6130 Sept 30th 2020.

But he only quoted one line of my email, which I thought was a bit mean.

[Hezz]

The early ornithologists were pretty cruel in their exploitation of our feathered friends in the name of science. Not just ornithologists either, in reality. At least botanists didn't have to kill their specimens to be studied and drawn.

I do remember seeing some very scruffy and scrappy taxidermy specimens in the Natural History Museum.