Dozens of "prized" yellow canaries have been stolen from a shed in Woking, leaving their owner devastated. Thieves who raided the home in the town centre seized 44 of the songbirds, but left ...

“I just bought a yellow canary because that’s all I thought they were and I thought they tweeted,” she said. “A couple days later, it sounded like there were 10 different birds in that cage.

The reference book states the species owes its yellow colour and vocal powers to 400 years of selective breeding by humans. Native to the Canary, Azores and Madeira islands, the canary is streak ...