I will start a series of articles on species related to the canary Serinus mozambique that populate my aviary too. The first of this series is about our beloved canary, Serinus canaria.
The canary is widespread in many aviaries around the world, there are many breeds and varieties of color, but we'll focus on your appearance "natural", the wild canary. This bird has sexual dimorphism, like many other serinus, let's first appearance of the male.
As can be seen, the domestic canary yellow just does not appear, instead we have a very nice green, trimmed with gray highlights. The mustache of our canary in Mozambique are not displayed, but they sense. The song of this bird is very melodious but more metallic sound the domestic variety. Here the female
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This couple comes from my friend Francruz aviary in Ecija. Through a selection process has fallen into the genetics of our canary ring recovering its ancient appearance. It is a small bird, but something larger than a canary in Mozambique, with a restless temperament and "wild." This gift my friend, and nature, I hope to offer their offspring this spring.
Now let's put another picture "male or female?