NOTICE BOARD - APRIL 2012
The organisation held its 18th Annual Meeting in
The WBO Chairman, Gerd Bleicher, thanked the host
National & State societies and in particular Warren Wilson, President of the ANBC and
New South Wales B.S., for the invitation and for the generous gesture of sponsoring the
delegates with two nights’ hotel accommodation, the array of gifts they received and
the functions that they attended during this fantastic event, The Australian National. The
Chairman also expressed a special welcome to the meeting for those who had travelled from
far away, this time it applied to most!
The Chairman looked back to the 2008 National in
The WBO Secretary, Ghalib Al-Nasser, also thanked
the host societies and reflected how wonderful it was to be holding our meeting in the
home of the budgerigar; which has been responsible for the tremendous hobby that we all
enjoy, and for the many friends we have made all over the world. He informed the meeting
that three more new countries have affiliated to the WBO during the year, namely
Since the meeting, two societies from
The Gould Award
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The WBO has created its own
prestigious award called The Gould Award commencing from 2011; to be awarded for
Meritorious Services to the World of Budgerigars in any field. The winner will receive a
special Gould Medal as well as a Certificate
to commemorate the win. During 2011 six societies sent nominations for this award and they were from Australia for Harry Eady, Germany for Jo Mannes, Republic of Ireland for Warren Wilson, Italy for Roberto Bugli, South Africa for Rienhard Molkentin and United Kingdom for Jeff Attwood. The Gould Award Committee agreed on the principal
of voting and after five rounds of voting the eventual winner was Jo Mannes winning the
very first Gould Award for 2012. Herr Mannes is responsible for revolutionising the modern
day budgerigar from 1990 to its present day. The WBO extends warm congratulations to Jo
Mannes for achieving this high honour and also to all the other worthy candidates. |
Items that were also discussed at the 2011 meeting
were:
WBO World Show
The WBO discussed in depth the feasibility of
staging its own World Show to coincide with one country’s national show at the 2011
meeting in
The guidelines for such a show are:
1. To coincide with the WBO Annual Delegates’ Meeting with
venue and date to be decided by the WBO meeting upon the received invitation of a member
society.
2. To be organised with a minimum classification accepted by the
WBO.
3. To follow the WBO guidelines on showing and judging.
4. To be judged by WBO International Judges only.
5. To be awarded special and prestigious WBO patronage.
6. To accept participation of birds and breeders from all WBO
affiliated societies (open show).
7. To accept to host any foreign delegate, in charge of the
transport and care of his country/society birds with free accommodation based on number of
birds benched.
8. To accept the collaboration of the foreign delegates in the
different tasks of the show organisation (feeding/watering of birds, stewarding etc ...).
Flecking
This subject was also introduced at the 2011
meeting as a discussion agenda item as it is a universal problem worldwide with different
countries adopting different standards where judging is concerned. A full debate by the
delegates took place with regard to this problem and how to eradicate it from shows.
It was acknowledged that all of our standards say
that the “frontal and crown of the budgerigar should be clear and free from all
markings”. However, judges and exhibitors have those birds on the show bench and some
judges are tempted to put them forward and others will penalise them. It is acknowledged
that there are many variations in flecking with marking over the eyes and over the crown.
Some countries have introduced photographs of
degrees of flecking that is acceptable as a fault and above that should not be judged.
Other countries have issued guidelines to their judges on how to penalise this fault and
apply penalties.
After a long debate, it was agreed that the WBO
should issue their own policy on this subject that “It is recommended that flecking
should be considered as a major fault”. Each country will decide on how to deal with
this major fault according to its own rules and regulations.
Judges Criteria
It is an established fact that there are many
countries that have established Judges Training Schemes and criteria on how to become a
judge, while some of the smaller and new societies do not have any scheme. It was agreed
at the 2011 meeting that the WBO may assist in setting up criteria for such
societies/countries who do not have any scheme for their members on how to progress to
become judges in their own countries. The following criteria were adopted by the WBO:
5 years breeder of
budgerigars
Test approved by WBO
Test through
management of WBO or an appointed person from WBO
5 years judge in
national organization before applying to the WBO Judges Panel
Some items of WBO news for fanciers all over the
World to know about are:
Future Meetings
The next WBO meeting will be held at 10.30 hrs on
The WBO is in a strong position in so far as
future meetings till 2015 have already been planned with
Ring Specification,
Colour Code and Sequence
The current ring specification for the budgerigar
and colour sequence as adopted by both the WBO and the World Organisation, the
Confederation Ornithologique Mondiale (COM), is listed below:
| Minimum internal diameter | 4.20 mm |
| Maximum internal diameter | 4.40 mm |
| Wall thickness | 0.60 – 0.90 mm |
| Ring height | 3.85 – 4.00 mm |
| Colour | Pantone Code | RAL Code | Year | Year |
| Violet | 249 U | 4008 | 2009 | 2015 |
| Orange | 1505 U | 2003 | 2010 | 2016 |
| Dark Blue | 301 U | 5019 | 2011 | 2017 |
| Red | 1797 U | 3002 | 2012 | 2018 |
| Black | 2U2X | 8005 | 2013 | 2019 |
| Pastel Green | 344 U (closest) | 6019 | 2014 | 2020 |
Member societies are strongly reminded that, when
ordering rings from any ring manufacturer, to specify the exact WBO ring colour and the
Pantone Code as well as the ring specification to avoid any misunderstanding by ring
manufacturers.
Membership
The WBO currently is in a healthy position with 42
affiliated societies spread over 6 continents in 32 countries. They are:
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• Europe:
Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Eire, France, Germany, Holland, Hungary, Italy,
Norway, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Slovensko, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine,
United Kingdom
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International Judges
Panel
A list of
current judges who are on the WBO International Judges Panel is on the website and full
addresses of each judge may be obtained from the Secretary. The conditions relating to
admittance to the WBO Judges Panel are as follows:
a.
to be a current champion breeder and
exhibitor of Budgerigars in their own country. Where a country/society has only
“one” Status of Exhibitor, a breeder and exhibitor of long standing will be
acceptable subject to “b” & “c” below.
b.
be a fully qualified judge for a minimum
of 5 years in their own country or in the country/society in which they qualified.
c.
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.
The WBO recommend that member countries should
consider inviting judges from overseas who are members of the WBO International Judges
Panel, as approved by the WBO, to judge at shows that are under their jurisdiction. A full
WBO International Judges List is available from the Secretary on request.
Standardisation of
Colours
The WBO has an A5 coloured card with the agreed
Budgerigar Colour Guide depicting the 10 primary budgerigar colours using the Pantone
Colour Codes. The cards used are of 250 mg/m˛ card print. The colours are only there as a
guide with the understanding that the colours for the grey and grey green are those for
the light factor.
Should any society wish to purchase these cards in
quantity they can do so at a cost of €0.50 (euro) each + postage (minimum order is
10) from Gerd Bleicher at his home address: (Schramberger Str. 41, D-13467 Berlin,
Germany. Tel: +49 30 40 44251, email: gerd.bleicher@dsv-ev.de).
WBO Badge
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At the 2010 meeting, the WBO
approved its own designed badge depicting the WBO logo of the Ideal Budgerigar
superimposed on the world map. The cost to purchase this badge, from the secretary, is
3.00 GB pounds each, plus postage. |
WBO Rosettes
WBO Executive Committee (E.C.)
An Executive Committee was created in 2004 to run
the affairs of the WBO between Council meetings. The E.C. for 2012 consists of Chairman
Gerd Bleicher (
WBO Publicity and the
Website
The WBO website is kept updated on a regular basis
with many files of interest such as research articles, Pictorial Ideal, Colour Standards,
Scale of Points, details of member organisations, ring specification etc. Photos of past
WBO rosette winners around the World are also included on the website (click on each photo
to enlarge it).
For further comments on any of the above items
please do not hesitate to contact the Secretary and please keep visiting the WBO website
for regular updates.
