Canary originally referred to the island of

Gran Canaria Gran Canaria (, ; ), also Grand Canary Island, is the third-largest and second-most-populous island of the Canary Islands, an archipelago off the Atlantic coast of Northwest Africa which is part of Spain. the island had a population of that co ...

on the west coast of Africa, and the group of surrounding islands (the

Canary Islands The Canary Islands (; es, Canarias, ), also known informally as the Canaries, are a Spanish autonomous community and archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean, in Macaronesia. At their closest point to the African mainland, they are west of Mo ...

). It may also refer to:

Animals

Birds

* Canaries, birds in the genera ''

Serinus ''Serinus'' is a genus of small birds in the finch family Fringillidae found in Europe and Africa. The birds usually have some yellow in their plumage. The genus was introduced in 1816 by the German naturalist Carl Ludwig Koch. Its name is New ...

'' and ''

Crithagra ''Crithagra'' is a genus of small passerine birds in the finch family (Fringillidae). They live in Africa and Arabia. The species in this genus were formerly assigned to the genus ''Serinus'', but phylogenetic analysis of mitochondrial and nucl ...

'' including, among others: **

Atlantic canary The Atlantic canary (''Serinus canaria''), known worldwide simply as the wild canary and also called the island canary, common canary, or canary, is a small passerine bird belonging to the genus ''Serinus'' in the finch family, Fringillidae. It ...

(''Serinus canaria''), a small wild bird *** Domestic canary, ''Serinus canaria domestica'', a small pet or aviary bird, also responsible for the "canary yellow" color term **

Yellow canary The yellow canary (''Crithagra flaviventris'') is a small passerine bird in the finch family. It is a resident breeder in much of the western and central regions of southern Africa and has been introduced to Ascension and St Helena islands. ...

(''Serinus flaviventris''), a small bird

Fish

* Canary damsel (''Similiparma lurida''), fish of the family Pomacentridae, found in the eastern Atlantic Ocean * Canary moray (''Gymnothorax bacalladoi''), an eel of the family Muraenidae *

Canary rockfish The canary rockfish (''Sebastes pinniger''), also known as the orange rockfish, is a species of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the subfamily Sebastinae, the rockfishes, part of the family Scorpaenidae. It is native to the waters of the Pacif ...

(''Sebastes pinniger''), of the family Sebastidae, found in the northeast Pacific Ocean

People

* Canary Burton (born 1942), American keyboardist, composer and writer *

Canary Conn Canary Conn (born 1949) is an American entertainer and author. Her memoir, ''Canary: The Story of a Transsexual'', was one of the early notable memoirs of a self-described Transsexual,Hausman, Bernice L. (1995). ''Changing Sex: Transsexualism, ...

(born 1949), American entertainer and author *

Bill Canary Bill Canary, also William Canary, is a Republican campaign consultant in Alabama. His wife, Leura Canary, was the United States Attorney for the United States District Court for the Middle District of Alabama. Canary used to be the President an ...

(fl. 1994), Republican campaign consultant in Alabama, Georgia, U.S. * Richard Canary (born in 1962), American mathematician at the University of Michigan * David Canary (1938–2015), American actor

Places

Canary District The Canary District is a housing development in Toronto's West Don Lands mixed-use development. Six initial buildings initially served as the 2015 Pan American Games Athletes' Village for the 2015 Pan American Games. Those buildings were then fin ...

, a housing development in Toronto, Canada *

, Spain *

Canary Wharf Canary Wharf is an area of London, England, located near the Isle of Dogs in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. Canary Wharf is defined by the Greater London Authority as being part of London's central business district, alongside Central ...

, Isle of Dogs, London, United Kingdom

Arts and entertainment

Black Canary The Black Canary is the name of two superheroines appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics: Dinah Drake and her daughter Dinah Laurel Lance. The original version was created by the writer-artist team of Robert Kanigher and ...

, a DC Comics superhero, first appeared in 1947 **

Sara Lance Sara Lance, also known by her alter-ego White Canary, is a fictional character in The CW's Arrowverse franchise, first introduced in the 2012 pilot episode of the television series ''Arrow'', and later starring in ''Legends of Tomorrow''. The c ...

/The Canary, a character on the television series ''Arrow'', based on the DC Comics character * Canary, a character in the manga and anime series ''

Hunter × Hunter ''Hunter × Hunter'' (stylized as ''HUNTER×HUNTER'' and pronounced "hunter hunter") is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Yoshihiro Togashi. It has been serialized in Shueisha's Shōnen manga, ''shōnen'' manga magazine ...

'' *

Canary dance The Canary dance (known as Canario in Italian sources, Canarie in French ones) was a Renaissance dance inspired in an indigenous dance and song of the Canary Islands (probably the one known as Tajaraste) that became popular all over Europe in the ...

, a Renaissance dance popular in Europe in the 16th and 17th centuries * "Canary" (''NCIS''), a 2013 episode of the American television series ''NCIS'' * "The Canary" (short story), 1923 short story by Katherine Mansfield * ''Canary'' (visual novel), released in 2000

Technology

* Canary release, a deployment cycle used by software developers to gradually roll out new features to a limited number of users ** Google Chrome Canary, pre-release version of the Chrome browser * HTC Canary, the first smartphone to run Windows Mobile, released in November 2002 * Canary value, buffer overflow protection method in computer programming

Other uses

* Canary, LLC, an oilfield services company * ''The Canary'' (website), a news media outlet created in 2015 * Canary melon, a yellow fruit *

Canary Current The Canary Current is a wind-driven surface current that is part of the North Atlantic Gyre. This eastern boundary current branches south from the North Atlantic Current and flows southwest about as far as Senegal where it turns west and later j ...

, a wind-driven surface current that is part of the North Atlantic Gyre * Canaries, players for or supporters of Norwich City F.C. * Canary sack, white fortified wine ( sack) imported from the Canary Islands *

Canary wood (disambiguation) Canary wood or canary whitewood is a name used to a number of species: * From '' Liriodendron'' commonly known as tulip trees * Indian mulberry '' Morinda citrifolia'' * Wood from the genus '' Centrolobium'' * Wood from the genus ''Persea ''Pers ...

, a name used to describe wood from a number of tree species * Canary yellow, a shade of yellow * Warrant canary, a published statement, the removal of which indicates the publisher received a National Security Letter