NOTICE BOARD - MAY 2014
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Best of Colour Winners | ||
Best Normal Green Series | Rui Teixeira | Portugal |
Best Normal Blue Series | Tibor Gyerkó | Hungary |
Best Grey Green | Giancarlo Carretti | Italy |
Best Grey | Pierre Channoy | France |
Best Opaline | Gerd Bleicher | Germany |
Best Cinnamon | Giuseppe Santangelo | Italy |
Best Opaline Cinnamon | Tibor Gyerkó | Hungary |
Best Lutino or Albino | Giancarlo Ferrioli | Itay |
Best Spangle | Alberto Castagnetti | Italy |
Best Dominant Pied | Rui Teixeira | Portugal |
Best Recessive Pied | Tibor Gyerkó | Hungary |
Best Yellowface | Giuseppe Cerrato | Italy |
Best Any Other Colour | Tibor Gyerkó | Hungary |
Best Crest, Clearwing & Fallow | Ghalib & Janice Al-Nasser | UK |
The Judges with Roberto Doni & Alberto Castagnelli
Long Flights/Long Tails
In recent years some important subjects have been tabled at WBO meetings for discussion, such as flecking and feather problems. Last year the focus was on long flights and long tails and their increased appearance on the show bench, mainly in Europe, United Kingdom and South Africa.
Budgerigars with long flighted problems first appeared in the 1950s in England and were very severely penalised by the Budgerigar Society as they were disqualified from the show bench. During the 1970s, 80s and 90s it was not a problem but now they are appearing on the show bench once again and the WBO felt that this problem needed to be highlighted to all fanciers around the world.
A lengthy debate took place emphasising the fact that the current problem is more of birds with long tails rather than the old problem of the 1950s of birds with long flights.
It was agreed that budgerigars should be in proportion and balanced and if the bird has a long tail that touches the floor of the show cage but its head does not touch the ceiling of the show cage then the bird is not in proportion and should be disqualified as per the WBO Guidelines to Judges & Exhibitors.
It was also agreed to change the terminology to Long Flighted/Long Tail and to educate the fancy around the world by issuing photos of these types of birds that possess the long tail characteristics and to further discuss this topic at the next meeting.
Budgerigars of Colour
The Italian Club AMICI sent a letter requesting that the Budgerigar of Colour be recognised by the WBO and adopted within the WBO criteria. Budgerigars of Colour are quite popular in many countries in Europe and from 4 years ago, classes are provided by all COM International and World Shows as part of the mandatory classification and they have been exhibited in many countries over many years. There is an official Scale of Points, Pictorial Ideal and Standard of Perfection for the Budgerigar of Colour.
After much debate it was agreed to send a proposal to all WBO affiliated societies requesting their agreement for the WBO to adopt the Budgerigar of Colour within the WBO criteria and the final decision to be approved at the next WBO meeting.
Judges Criteria
At the 2011 WBO meeting it was agreed to create a Judges Criteria and to help the smaller and newer countries/societies that do not have a proper Judges Training Scheme, thereby assisting their members 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 organisation before applying to the WBO Judges Panel
Since this scheme commenced, two fanciers have taken the judging test laid down by the WBO and under WBO supervision, consisting of practical, written and colour identification tests.
We are pleased to announce that Ahmad Raza Sahi from Pakistan passed in December 2012 and Björn Johansson from Sweden passed in October 2013. Their societies will be able to ask the WBO to add them on the WBO International Judges Panel after completing 5 years as judges in their own countries.
The next WBO meeting will be held on Friday 7th November 2014 in Istanbul, Turkey, to coincide with the national society TKKKF National mixed variety show. The TKKKF will also be hosting the 2nd WBO World Championship Show at this time.
The HQ hotel will be Hotel Armada (www.armadahotel.com.tr) (info@armadahotel.com.tr), booking reference number WBO 2014. Special prices with breakfast are:
Room for 3 people - 100 Euro; Room for 2 people - 90 Euro; Room for 1 Person - 70 Euro.
The WBO is in a good position as future meetings until 2018 are already planned with United Kingdom in 2015 (5th 7th June in Stoke-on-Trent to coincide with the B.S. Convention), Portugal in 2016, Hungary in 2017 and South Africa in 2018.
The current ring specification for the budgerigar and colour sequence as adopted by both the WBO and 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 |
To avoid any misunderstanding, 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.
The WBO currently is in a healthy position with 43 affiliated societies over 6 continents in 32 countries. They are:
Asia: Japan, Pakistan, Philippines
Australasia: Australia, New Zealand
Africa: South Africa
Europe: Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Eire, France, Germany, Holland, Hungary, Italy, Norway, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Slovensko, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom
North America: Canada, United States of America
South America: Argentina, Brazil, Venezuela
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 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.
WBO Badge
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
Each member country/society receives four WBO rosettes each year, as part of their affiliation, for Best Any Age, Best Any Age Opposite Sex, Best Young Bird & Best Young Bird Opposite Sex in Show to be awarded to four different birds at their national show. Names of winners and photos of the winning birds are then included on each years Rosette Winners file. Please visit the website for current and previous winners.
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 2014 consists of Chairman Gerd Bleicher (Germany), Secretary Ghalib Al-Nasser (U.K.), Vice-Chairman Carlos Ramôa (Portugal) and Immediate Past Chairman Roger Carr (U.K.).
The WBO website is 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 contact the Secretary, Ghalib Al-Nasser ghalib.alnasser@gmail.com