Charlie Anchor - Best Zebra

The Charlie Anchor Zebra Award is handed out once a year at the National Caged Bird Show which is the annual NFSS National Show & special event. Charlie Anchor was an NFSS Judge and long time NFSS member and aviculturalist. He is continuously remembered through this award each year for his exceptional work with Pied & other mutations of Zebra Finches. They were so large he used to joke, “They look like pigeons!”

2009 – Ricardo Gaskin……………………………..Chestnut Flanked White, Cock
2010 – No NCBS
2011 – Ricardo Gaskin
2012 – Sally & Vince Huntington………………..Lightback Zebra
2013 – Sally & Vince Huntington………………..Lightback Zebra
2014 – Abbie Burhams……………………………..Normal Zebra, Cock
2015 – Vince/Sally Huntington…………………..Grey Zebra, Cock
2016 – Laura Tinker…………………………………Silver Dom Zebra Cock
2022 – Charlie Anchor Award for the Best Foreign Bird is the Finch and Softbill shown by Lauren Ogburn