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 ...

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 ...

In the 1300s, Spanish explorers discovered a small bird living in the islands off the western coasts of Portugal and Morocco, with dull green feathers but a sweet lyrical voice. The bird became ...

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 ...

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 ...