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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A champion canary breeder accidentally killed all but one of his birds with insecticide. Stan Bolton claimed most of his 88-strong flock – worth about £2,500 – died within 10 minutes of him using ...

Mr Harrison is hoping that he will be able to get the birds back from the thieves, but admits that it would be difficult to spot whether they were definitely his birds Credit: Photo: ALAMY Kenneth ...

MINDLESS thugs have devastated the aviary of one of Ireland's best-known pet bird breeders. John McCarthy was heartbroken yesterday at the devastation caused to his prized canary collection by thieves ...