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The domestic canary, often simply known as the canary (Serinus canaria forma domestica [4]), is a domesticated form of the wild canary, a small songbird in the finch family originating from the Macaronesian Islands of the Azores, Madeira and the Canary Islands. [5] Canaries were first bred in captivity in the 17th century, having been brought ...
Canary Islanders, or Canarians (Spanish: canarios), are the people of the Canary Islands, an autonomous community of Spain near the coast of Northwest Africa. The distinctive variety of the Spanish language spoken in the region is known as habla canaria (Canary speech) or the (dialecto) canario (Canarian dialect). The Canarians, and their ...
The pre-colonial population of the Canaries is generically referred to as Guanches, although, strictly speaking, Guanches were originally the inhabitants of Tenerife. According to the chronicles, the inhabitants of Fuerteventura and Lanzarote were referred to as Maxos , Gran Canaria was inhabited by the Canarii , El Hierro by the Bimbaches , La ...
Linnaeus originally classified the Atlantic canary as a subspecies of the European serin and assigned them to the genus Fringilla. Decades later, Cuvier reclassified them into the genus Serinus and there they have remained. The Atlantic canary's closest relative is the European serin, and the two can produce on average 25% fertile hybrids if ...
The first period (Spanish: Conquista Betancuriana o Normanda) of the conquest of the Canaries was carried out by the Norman nobles Jean de Bethencourt and Gadifer de la Salle. [27] Their motives were basically economic: Bethencourt possessed textile factories and dye works and the Canaries offered a source of dyes such as the orchil lichen.
The seven major islands, one minor island, and several small islets were originally volcanic islands, formed by the Canary hotspot. [44] The Canary Islands is the only place in Spain where volcanic eruptions have been recorded during the Modern Era, with some volcanoes still active (El Hierro, 2011). [45]
Natural History of the Canary Islands (French: Histoire Naturelle des Îles Canaries) [1] is an illustrated reference work of the natural history of the Canary Islands. It was written by the English botanist Philip Barker-Webb and the French naturalist and ethnologist Sabin Berthelot , in cooperation with several other scientists.
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