Abstract
Editor's Note: The following is
from a presentation given at the
AFA convention in San Francisco.
Its contents depict the attitude and
characteristics of what is needed to
be a top winner in showing budgerigars.
Terry and Clare Pilkington are
current top budgerigar breeders in
the United Kingdom. They started
breeding budgerigars over 20 years
ago. They won the Budgerigar
Society World Show in 1982. This
award is classed as the ultimate
achievement on the British Budgerigar
scene and the prestige and satisfaction
gained is everlasting. They
not only won the Best in Show
award with a Grey Green Breeder
Cock, but managed to take an additional
11 trophies. In 1984, they
won Best Opposite Sex Breeder at
the Budgerigar Society World Show
with a Grey Cock.
Breeding with the Power Birds. To
begin with, what is a " Power Bird"?
This is an American expression
which is now being used in the
United Kingdom to describe the sort
of budgerigar which is most sought
after by .the top breeders both here
and abroad. This expression has only
just come into our budgerigar
"lingo", but I think that the words
Power Birds really describes what we
are trying to get across. Power is a
bird of great influence which is
appealing to the eye. What does this
mean? My own interpretation is that
you are walking between staging at
the show and are looking at the
classes and just glancing at the birds,
the "power birds" are the very good
specimens. They are the birds that
stand out among the others and they
make you stop and look again.