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 in the ...

Following a deadly explosion in a Welsh coal mine in 1896, an engineer called John Haldane invented a type of bird cage that allowed canaries to accompany miners into the depths. The small songbirds ...

A very hungry python was shamed for slithering into a Queensland bird aviary and having a feast on 11 canaries. “Yes thats right, not 1...not 2...but 11 Canaries ...

Following a deadly explosion in a Welsh coal mine in 1896, an engineer called John Haldane invented a type of bird cage that allowed canaries to accompany miners into the depths. The small songbirds ...

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A tiny bird from Hull has captured the world’s attention. Joey, a canary owned by K. Ross, has died at the remarkable age of 34. Guinness World Records recognises Joey as the oldest canary ever ...

The song is constant. From the cages lining the walls to the cages stacked neatly atop each other in the center of the floor, this second-floor room in this stately Maitland home is alive with ...

IN spite of all that has been and will be said and written against it, the practice of keeping birds in confinement is so popular and so wide-spread, that there is no chance of its coming to an end.

Sue Sausser woke and found feathers everywhere. Her bird cage was open — one canary was dead, the other terrified. A brown owl had flown into the 10th story apartment through the open balcony door.