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Friday, June 22, 2007

Canaries Convene for a Singing Contest (NPR)

From NPR News:

by Dan Collison and Elizabeth Meister
Day to Day, June 21, 2007

Back in the 1930s, a group of eight women in Massachusetts gathered with one goal: to create a uniquely tuneful pet canary. The result of their breeding experiments was the American Singer Canary. Recently, an annual national competition was held to name the best bird.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=11253608

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