Canary Explained
Canary originally referred to the island of Gran Canaria, in Spain, and the group of surrounding islands (the Canary Islands). It may also refer to:
Animals
Birds
- Canaries, birds in the genera Serinus and Crithagra including, among others:
- Atlantic canary (Serinus canaria), a small wild bird
- Domestic canary, Serinus canaria domestica, a small pet or aviary bird, also responsible for the "canary yellow" color term
- Yellow canary (Crithagra flaviventris), a small bird
Fish
- Canary damsel (Similiparma lurida), fish of the family Pomacentridae, found in the eastern Atlantic Ocean
- Canary moray (Gymnothorax bacalladoi), an eel of the family Muraenidae
- Canary rockfish (Sebastes pinniger), of the family Sebastidae, found in the northeast Pacific Ocean
People
- Canary Burton (born 1942), American keyboardist, composer and writer
- Canary Conn (born 1949), American entertainer and author
- Bill Canary (fl. 1994), Republican campaign consultant in Alabama, Georgia, U.S.
- Richard Canary (born in 1962), American mathematician at the University of Michigan
- David Canary (1938–2015), American actor
Places
Arts and entertainment
Technology
- Canary release, a deployment cycle used by software developers to gradually roll out new features to a limited number of users
- Google Chrome Canary, pre-release version of the Chrome browser
- HTC Canary, the first smartphone to run Windows Mobile, released in November 2002
- Canary value, a buffer overflow protection method in computer programming
Other uses
- Canary, LLC, an oilfield services company
- The Canary (website), a news media outlet created in 2015
- Canary melon, a yellow fruit
- Canary Current, a wind-driven surface current that is part of the North Atlantic Gyre
- Canaries, players for or supporters of Norwich City F.C.
- Canary sack, white fortified wine (sack) imported from the Canary Islands
- Canary wood (disambiguation), a name used to describe wood from a number of tree species
- Canary yellow, a shade of yellow
- Warrant canary, a published statement, the removal of which indicates the publisher received a National Security Letter
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