Gloster canaries with flat feathers on the head are called corona's. Gloster canaries are small birds primarily bred for their distinctive shape rather than color or song. They share similar care ...

The way Roberto Zamura sees it, if it walks like a canary, and talks like a canary, it isn't necessarily a canary - not one that meets his standards anyway. The world, after all, abounds in drab green ...

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 ...

A dead canary chick lies alone in a nest, lifeless after its mother was stolen by callous thieves out to make money. This was the scene Walsall canary breeder Phillip Gormley woke up to after the ...

Almost a century ago, bird breeders turned canaries red. They repeatedly hybridized the bright yellow birds with a striking Venezuelan finch called the red siskin, and so moved the gene responsible ...

Prepare for a change in the pecking order. A leading scientist in animal behaviour hopes to show how early canary fanciers and bird breeders helped pioneer ornithology. Tim Birkhead, of the University ...

Callous thieves have stolen valuable canaries and left other birds for dead in a series of swoops on an aviaries in the Black Country. Robbers targeted the Little Bloxwich premises of canary breeder ...