2026 Class 15 - Cinnamonwing ASC

Judges Comments:

I'll go as far as saying that this is probably the class of the day so far that I've judged. The depth throughout is outstanding, right through to 21st. You could take any one of these birds' home, right the way through, fantastic, the depth is just unbelievable. If you've had a bird finish on a top shelf in this class, you've done extremely well, because there's quality right through.

Cage O owned by T Anderson from Victoria, is a Cinnamon Grey Green cock leading the class off. He's just an ultimate show budgie. He knows he's good. He is the standard. He just tapers so gracefully down through the perch. He's got that lovely fan face, that supreme width of cap, the downward directional feather off the cere. Got a really nice mask. He has not moved all day, went straight to first, Just the shape and outlining, deportment of that bird is absolutely outstanding, and I think he's probably one of the strongest birds we've seen for the day. Congratulations to that breeder.

Cage D owned by Joel Keune from South Queensland and Cage B owned B Schutz & Tonkin from South Australia, Two very similar birds, both cinnamon greygreen cock birds. They are timed to the minute. They are shiny. They are that sleek of feather, not a feather out of place. They're prepared so well, very, very similar. In the end, to split them, it was only, cigarette paper between the two. We decided that the Cage D had that slight advantage in length of keel, that bit more stand-up and knuckle off the perch. Just a little higher up to the crease of the cage, but you could argue they're nestmates and brothers, those blokes, so that's that similar. Lovely spot impact, good depth of mask. Supreme, top skull and back skull, and really nice shaped birds.

Cage Q owned by Holmes Family from South Australia, he did himself absolutely no favours today, very reluctant to perch. We did get him to hit the perch for enough time to adjudicate to see what he was like and assess him. He's probably the power bird of the class. You can see the grunt, the shoulder, the body substance. He gives away a little in spot impact to the cocks above him, but you've got to admire that width and raw power. He's carrying a slight degree of head markings, but that's not too much to get worried about. But as I said, he's just reluctant to get off the floor today, and he couldn't work his way any higher into the class due to that.