Gloster Canaries

Welcome to Richard Lumley Gloster Canaries

Hi, my name is Richard Lumley and I live in the heart of North Yorkshire, England.

I’ve been breeding Gloster Canaries for 20 years. My stud of glosters originate from purchasing breeding stock from the late Jim Spring from Nottingham, Nick and Annalain Barrett from Kings Lynn and Jon Vanderstraeten from Belgium. All my birds therefore are Barrett based.

It has taken a lot of time and hard work to get my stud of birds up to a high standard. Trying to get feather quality and type has not been easy. I now feel that I have got both of these in my birds. People tend to forget that the gloster is a type canary and as such, they are diminutive (which means very small).

In my opinion there are too many breeders breeding very large birds.
But not in my shed! All my birds are close rung.

I am General Secretary of the International Ornithological Association, and also Chairman and Show Manager of the Yorkshire Gloster Canary Club. I am a Gloster Convention Panel Judge and I have judged the English National at the NEC. I exhibit my birds at the world show under the points system.

To date I have shown at the last 4 world shows and have had one bird reach 90 points which is just 1 point off a medal. I hope to achieve a medal at the next world show in Italy 2009.

If you require any information on how to show at a world show, please feel free to email me on richardlumley27@tiscali.co.uk.
Thank you for visiting my website.

Richard Lumley.