Canaries: Popular Pets for 500 years
The male canary‘s beautiful song has made it a wildly popular pet, around the world. Today’s domesticated canaries all descended from a wild species found in the Canary Islands. This species was first brought to Europe during the 1500′s.
During the next 500 years, many European breeders made their living breeding and selling canaries. For example, canaries became the chief industry of the Harz region of Germany. Breeders soon developed different kinds of canary. By the 18th century, there were twenty-nine varieties.
Many of these varieties are available today, for pets. Some are bred for their colors. Others were developed for their shape, such as crested canaries. A third group of canaries were bred specifically to enhance their voices. For instance, the Roller Canary is known for its rolling songs.
Canary breeders often take their birds to shows, where judges rate the birds by their song or appearance. These shows take place in October and November, when the breeders’ new male canaries are most likely to sing.
Today, canaries make ideal, easy pets for busy households. They don’t require constant attention, like some parrots and cockatiels. They live happily in cages, provided the cage is large enough. Toys in their cage can prevent boredom. A happy male canary can live and sing for up to 20 years.
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I love canary birds. I have 2. The girl is a bright yellow, and her name is Tweet-Heart, but we call her Tweety. The boy is a darker, golen yellow. His real name is Thumper, but my brother keeps calling him Mr.America, so that’s his nick-name. I love birds. They are such an addition to the house, and you will see. In my opinion, everyone should have one. They are very easy to take care of. Canaries are just so cute and friendly. I don’t always keep mine in it’s cage. It flies around the room and sometimes sits on my shoulder while I’m doing homework at my desk. Please, I would like everybody that reads this to love them as much as me. Thank you.
yeah, you are right. My new addition to the house is such a sweetheart. Her name is Goldie-Locks. Most of the time we call her Goldie. Canary birds are very cool.
My daughter really wants one. I don’t think that they are a good animal. They stink really bad. They are too noisy.
I don’t think that’s true… This is a very special bird that takes a very special place in my heart. I will never read anything disguarding Canaries again……………..):
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Thank you all very much for your comments. We enjoy hearing about our user’s experiences with birds!
@Toby:
Not true. bird feces do not smell at all, as they do not eat meat. they’re songs really are generally very soft.