In scenes reminiscent of some years ago when it was nothing to stage a show of a thousand or more cage birds, the newly formed Bathurst Regional Avicultural Society benched 670 entries for adjudication.

The birds on show were entered by breeders of canaries, budgerigars, parrots and finches from a number of places throughout NSW.

The judges who included some of the most experienced panel members in Australia said the Bathurst show standard was amazing, because virtually every section contained birds that were up to the national scale for species.

The grand champion budgerigar of the show was an opaline green cock exhibited by Des and Matthew Campbell, Orange.

Grand champion canary of the show was a border fancy hen benched by Bob Moore, of Sydney one of the leading exhibitors of canaries at most major shows this year.

Bathurst fancier, Ron Weal who some months ago carried off a major national award with his zebra finches in South Australia once again exhibited the grand champion, a common male zebra finch at a Bathurst show.

A first for a show staged by the new society in Bathurst, was the success of junior exhibitor Jake Sinclair-Foley, of Yass who caged a ruddy waxbill, judged grand champion in the section for Australian and foreign finches.

The grand champion parrot of the show was an electus parrot from the aviaries of Allen Storm, of Young.