Back in the 1930s, a group of eight women in Massachusetts gathered with one goal: to create a uniquely tuneful pet canary. The result of their breeding experiments was the American Singer Canary.

It’s time to meet this week’s adorable Pet of the Week, Mercury — a friendly nine-month-old canary who loves singing, ...

Q-My wife and I got a canary about 18 months ago. It sang so much and so loudly, especially in the morning, that it was almost annoying. It stopped singing while it molted, but always started again ...

In 18th-century Europe, stylish aristocrats taught their pet canaries to sing tunes with a device called a serinette. An automated pipe organ, the serinette repeatedly cranked out the same sequence of ...

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Well-known for vocal talents and vibrant color, the canary is one of the most popular pet birds in the world. Canaries hail originally from the Canary Islands, which were named not for their most ...