How Do Canaries Learn To Sing?

 

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Young canaries learn to sing by taking, “Singing Lessons” from older birds.  People keep canaries for their songs, and because they make cheerful pets. 

Young canaries are given singing lessons.  People who raise canaries take great care in training them to sing. 

The male canary is the best songster.  The young canaries imitate the songs of other birds, so they learn by listening to older birds that sing especially well.  Besides, music is played for them. 

Sometimes canaries can even be taught to sing like nightingales by playing those records of nightingale songs. 

Canaries are named for the Canary Island, the home of their wild ancestors,  Long ago, when Spanish explorers landed on one of their island homes, they found many wild dogs. 

So they named the Island “Canaries,”  which means “isle of Dogs,” and canaries got their name from the Island.  There are still wild canaries on this island. 

Wild canaries can sing, but their songs are not nearly as beautiful as those of the tame birds which have been bred for many generations for the quality of their songs. Dick Rogers

 

How Did The Canary Island Get Their Name?

 

 

The word canary comes from the latin word “canis”, meaning “dog.”  Early explorers named the island for the many wild dogs they found there.

 

The Canary Island are a group of rugged, mountainous islands that lie in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Africa.

 

You might think that the islands got their name because they are the native home of the canary bird.  But you would be wrong.

 

When early explorers first landed on the islands, they found many wild dogs there.  They named the islands “Canaria” which means Isle of Dogs (Canary comes from “canis”, the Latin word for dogs).

 

So the Canary Islands got their name because of the dogs, and the canary birds got their name form the islands!

 

There are still wild canaries to be found on these island.  Many Canary Islanders catch wild canaries and sell them to many places in the world for pets.

 

Canary Island farmers raise bananas, vegetables and many other drops in the fertile soil

 

The Canary Island  have been a Spanish territory since the 1400s.

 

Reference: Dick Rogers