AS FANCIERS, we often take for granted the vast array of type canaries available to us. And give our habit of looking ahead and developing stock for the future, it is perhaps understandable that we don't give too much thought to the history and evolution of our breeds.
Recently I was asked why, when most UK canary breeds acknowledge the area they were developed (the Fife and Yorkshire, for example), that old breed, the crested, was simply
