Saw this bird in the backyard this afternoon; was with a flock of sparrows and seemed accepted into the flock; was at the water bowl flying through the fountain and sitting on the bowl edge; was slightly smaller than a sparrow and reminded me of a canary; small cheeeep voice ????
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Have deleted that other thread for you :) Don't worry about it, posting photos in here is not straight forward, noone ever gets it the first time :)
Thats a canary too - someone's pet has escaped.
Hmm Holly, I did! The person on the forum, that had a "real phobia of technology" What you just said, makes me, (an old girl)proud of myself.I got the posting right first time!!!! M-L LOL
M-L
That looks like a cross between a canary and a sparrow.
Is that possible? They are both finches...
- soakes
soakes
Olinda, Victoria, Australia
I have only seen the red factor version of this canary but I found this [link=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_Canary]Link[/link] for an atlantic canary which appears to be this bird.
Alison
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About 40 years ago I was working on the installation of a lift in the new No5 blast furnace at Port Kembla steel works. While on site we had to carry a canary in a cage as a gas detector like in the mines of old. They also had a man there with gas detecting equipment but we were out of site out of mind in the lift shaft.
There was an employee on site whose job it was to breed the replacement canaries. This was all done on the cheap and the canaries were of very low quality and I'm sure many of them were very close to actualy being sparrows. So my guess is that they can be cross bred. Ray
I've just done a bit of research and found that sparrows and canaries are of different genus. Sparrow- passer and canary- serinus, so they would not be able to interbreed. Ray
Interesting story Ray. Did they send other birds or was it just canaries, and why canaries?
Possibly for their song, cooee. When they stop singing you know that you are in trouble.
Wow thanks for all the comments people. This was my first post on this site and it is wonderful that so many people replied.
Good find, qyn55. That does indeed look very much like the bird.
- soakes
soakes
Olinda, Victoria, Australia
Just canaries as far as I know cooee. Historically it has always been canaries, They are possibly more sensitive to coal mine gasses than other birds or maybe easier to procure.
Ray
No lemlimenbitters, It was not for their song, the canaries we had did not sing (I think only the male sings). You had to keep an eye the bird and if it got wobbly or sick looking, you had to get out ASAP. Ray