Canaries

The Canary is a small passerine bird native to the Azores, the Canary Islands, and Madeira. Wild birds are mostly yellow-green, with brownish streaking on the back. The species is common in captivity and a number of different colour varieties have been bred. It is 12.5 cm long, with a wingspan of 20-23 cm and a weight of 15-20 g. The song is a silvery twittering similar to the songs of the Serin and Citril Finch. The bird is named after the Canary Islands, not the other way around, derived from the Latin name canariae insulae ("islands of dogs") used by Arnobius, referring to the large dogs kept by the inhabitants of the islands. This sound uses the following sound file from Freesound (http://www.freesound.org): CanarySennheiserME66LME67R.wav by brfindla