The world, after all, abounds in drab green and yellow so-called canaries, sub-par specks of eye candy well-suited for coal mines and silver cages. But not, Zamura says, for too much else.

Brenda Varhola, president of Florida Canary Fanciers, got her first canary 20 years ago as an accessory for an antique cage while living in Ohio. “I figured 100 years ago, someone had a bird in ...

Books Received Published: 23 February 1899 Notes on Cage Birds (Second series); or, Practical Hints on the Management of British and Foreign Cage Birds, Hybrids, and Canaries R. L. Nature 59, 389 ...

Mining foreman R. Thornburg shows a small cage with a canary used for testing carbon monoxide gas in 1928. George McCaa, U.S. Bureau of Mines Never mind the gas—it was automation that got them ...