Some key elements in keeping native birds
WHEN I was six years old, my father acquired a roller canary and kept it in a singing cage. This had galvanised zinc food pots and it was a type used for roller contest singers, with little doors on.
Richard (the roller) had his cage situated in the kitchen on an old pair of washing squeezers which could be folded in such a way that it looked like a table with a polished top. In all the 10 years we had him, he never moved out of that cage. Looking back,
