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 ...

The redder, the better. And I’m not talking about beets, roses or presidential candidates. I’m talking birds. Well, some birds. In various species, red coloration in a male’s feathers or beak is an ...

The red siskin - a tiny blood-red bird of the coastal mountains of Venezuela and Colombia - has been trapped almost out of existence. Reduced to a few hundred individuals, the species was critically ...