Both the Belgian and Dutch Budgerigar Societies combined their efforts to
organise the WBO meeting held last September. The meeting was held in
The topics discussed and decisions made can be summarised as follows:
Membership
Two new societies joined the WBO during 2004 and they are the
Sociedade Portuguese Do Ondulado (
WBO Constitution
Since the 2003 WBO meeting, a sub-committee
was formed to look deeper into the aspect of membership and officers of the WBO. The
recommendations were balloted to the affiliated societies and the secretary read out the
results at the meeting.
Resolution 1
– To amend Rules 3(iv), 4(i) & (ii) and 5(i) & (ii). This resolution was passed with 73% of the
casting vote.
Resolution 2
– To amend Rules 6(v) & (vi), 7(i), (vi) & (vii), 9(iii)-(ix) and 10(viii).
This resolution was passed with 70%
of the casting vote.
Rosettes
– To increase the number of rosettes to 4 per society catering for the opposite sexes
as well. This resolution was
passed with 87% of the casting vote.
WBO Model
The Model failed to be accepted by societies by 80% of the casting vote.
After much debate it was agreed to form a sub-committee consisting of
delegates from
Standardisation of Colours
Having completed the task in 2003 a new A5
coloured card with the agreed Budgerigar Colour Guide depicting the 10 primary
budgerigar colours using the Pantone Colour Codes was produced by Gerd Bleicher (
Should any society wishes to purchase these cards in quantity they can do so at a cost of €0.5 (euro) each + postage (minimum order is 10) from Gerd Bleicher (Scramberger Str. 41, D-13467 Berlin, Germany. Tel: +49 30 40 44251, email: gerd.bleicher@dsv-ev.de).
WBO Publicity
and the website
A new WBO Information Leaflet was
produced by the Secretary and it is now on the WBO website. Photos of 2004 WBO rosette
winners around the World are also included on the website (click on each photo to enlarge
it). It is hoped that other societies will send photos of their winners to be added to
those already on the website.
International
Judges Panel
It was agreed to make slight adjustments to the conditions
relating to admittance to the WBO Judges Panel. The new criteria is as follows:
be a fully qualified judge for a minimum of 5-years in their own country or in the country/society in which they qualified.
apply in writing to their National Society (or the society in which they qualified) to be placed on the list. The National Society will then be responsible for checking their qualifications and, if eligible, for passing names, addresses and telephone numbers to the WBO Secretary for inclusion on the list.
It was also agreed that member countries should consider inviting judges from
overseas who are members of the International Judges Panel, as approved by the WBO, to
judge at shows that are under their jurisdiction. A WBO International Judges List is
available from the Secretary on request.
Officers’
Elections
Next Meeting
The next WBO meeting is scheduled in
Room rates are $69 per room, per night based on a single or double occupancy
for the Friday and Saturday and $39 during the week. When booking rooms please mention
Budgerigar Association of America or Reservation ID “PCIBUDG”. Booking at
those rates will stay open till
For further comments on any of the above items please do not hesitate to contact me and please keep visiting the WBO website for regular updates.
Secretary/Treasurer
ghalib.alnasser@gmail.com