A canary is a bird to be admired for it's beautiful, harmonious song, said 10-year canary breeder Carlos Ambrogio of Houma. The Argentina native, who holds a degree in music, was attracted to the ...

Back in the 1930s, a group of eight women in Massachusetts gathered with one goal: to create a uniquely tuneful pet canary. The result of their breeding experiments was the American Singer Canary.

The song is constant. From the cages lining the walls to the cages stacked neatly atop each other in the center of the floor, this second-floor room in this stately Maitland home is alive with ...

Plucking The Red Canary off the shelf in a bookshop, you'd assume that you'd found a book about biotechnology. The subtitle touts the eponymous bird as “the first genetically engineered animal”, and ...

In 1958, while most Americans were huddled around their RCA televisions, watching a frock-wearing Uncle Miltie or gun-toting Marshal Matt Dillon, several bird enthusiasts were meeting in the basement ...

There was a time when all canaries were green. As they became popular cage birds in the 15th century, however, 'bird fanciers' or hobbyists interested in the rearing of birds began adjusting various ...

THE sound of canaries flapping and chirping at the Fraser Coast Show is music to the ears of Graham Brischke, as he collects his 14th Grand Champion Bird award in 15 years. According to the humble ...

Sometimes, Bob Manwarren says, he thinks his birds eat better than he does. Manwarren’s birds are canaries. He keeps a hundred or more of them in his basement. They always eat well, but this time of ...

Daniel J. Crawford, Gregory J. Anderson, Lurdes Borges Silva, Miguel Menezes de Sequeira, Mónica Moura, Arnoldo Santos-Guerra, John K. Kelly and Mark E. Mort Abstract Plants on oceanic islands often ...

Nature lovers are fascinated by the increasing number of singing birds when spring is approaching. Scientists also take advantage of this seasonal phenomenon because they are able to investigate the ...