canaries in English

noun
1
a mainly African finch with a melodious song, typically having yellowish-green plumage. One kind is popular as a pet bird and has been bred in a variety of colors, especially bright yellow.
Janet has been keeping exotic birds including cockatiels, finches and canaries for 12 years.
2
a bright yellow color resembling the plumage of a canary.
African marigold comes in yellow and orange colours in various hues such as light yellow, canary yellow , golden yellow, bright yellow, cadmium, orange, golden orange, deep orange, bright orange.
3
a sweet wine from the Canary Islands, similar to Madeira.
His drinks cellar would have been stocked with vast quantities of strong beer and small beer (a weaker brew), as well as a range of wines such as claret and canary .

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1. Canaries, huh?

2. They're afraid of canaries.

3. Two canaries in the coal mine.

4. Each mine was required to keep two canaries.

5. Canaries used to be used as kind of biosensors in mines.

6. 1, 2. (a) In the past, why were canaries put in British mines?

7. Monson, “Canaries with Gray on Their Wings,” Liahona, June 2010, 4.

8. In doing this, what we've discovered is that humans are literal canaries in social exchanges.

9. Coloured Canaries specializes in exporting of birds to the Americas and the Caribbean

10. The coal mine canaries are dropping dead, and you won't take the hint!

11. By 1991, the number of Australian plainhead canaries in Australia had dropped to around 460 birds.

12. 9 The British coal miners mentioned earlier used canaries to provide an early warning of the presence of poisonous gas.

13. In Victorian times British finches were hugely popular as cage birds throughout the British Isles, often replacing canaries.

14. Also known as "sea canaries," Belugas are one of the most the most vocal of all whales

15. 6 We all watched as Alice stopped to coo at two canaries in a silver cage on the porch.

16. Belugas are small white whales known as the "canaries of the sea" for the wide range of vocal sounds they make

17. Red factor canaries are usually available at most pet stores, and can also be found through bird shows, bird clubs, breeders, and on the internet.

18. Tomorrow during the hunt, we're going to disappear and everyone will think we've been captured, and that we're going to be turned into dogs or canaries or something.

19. Whether you keep parrots or parakeets, conures, canaries, finches or doves, at PetSmart you'll find bird Cages and stands designed to suit their needs – and your space.

20. Whether you keep parrots or parakeets, conures, canaries, finches or doves, at PetSmart you'll find Bird cages and stands designed to suit their needs – and your space.

21. Indoor and Outdoor Bird Aviaries We can build you custom sized bird cages or Aviaries for inside or outside use to house your finches, canaries, parakeets, doves, quail, and exotic birds

22. Cuttlebone definition, the calcareous internal shell of cuttlefishes, used to make powder for polishing and fed to canaries and other pet birds to supply their diet with lime

23. Like many whales, Belugas sing under the ocean, and Richard said Belugas are particularly admired vocalists, known as "the canaries of the sea." Perhaps, then, voyagers in …

24. The earliest known recorded link between the club and canaries, comes in an interview recorded in the Eastern Daily Press with newly appointed manager, John Bowman in April 1905.

25. They squeal, squeak, and chirp, which is why sailors long ago called them “sea canaries.” Of the five Alaskan stocks, the Cook Inlet Beluga stock is the smallest and most isolated from other Beluga whales

26. But the city of Norwich had long connections with canaries owing to its 15th and 16th century links to Flemish weavers who had imported the birds to the Low Countries from the Dutch colonies in the Caribbean.

27. ‘The Bocaccio is the ‘poster child’ for an overfished species, currently estimated to be 2-4% of their original biomass.’ ‘Vast numbers of rockfish at various life stages, especially widows, yellowtails, and blues, which tend to school in midwater, and some deeper-water species such as yelloweyes, canaries, vermilions, and Bocaccios

28. Ascarids – Common in budgerigars, cockatiels, and psittacine; also found in many birds who have access to the ground Capillaria – Tiny thread-like worms that infect the gastrointestinal tract of many companion birds, such as macaws, canaries, budgerigars, pigeons, and gallinaceous birds

29. Belugas are also very peculiar when it comes to acoustics, which adds to the impression of them being constantly happy: They utter a great variety of whistling, squeaking and flute-like sounds, which are often even audible above the water or through the bulk of a ship.Calling them the “canaries of the sea” is the next degree of belittlement.