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Canary originally referred to the island of Gran Canaria on the west coast of Africa, and the group of surrounding islands (the Canary Islands). It may also refer to:

Animals

Birds

• Canaries, birds in the genera Serinus and Crithagra including, among others:
  • Atlantic canary (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 (Crithagra 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 (Sebastes pinniger), of the family Sebastidae, found in the northeast Pacific Ocean

People

• Canary Burton (born 1942), American keyboardist, composer and writer
• Canary Conn (born 1949), American entertainer and author
• Bill Canary (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, a housing development in Toronto, Canada
• Canary Islands, Spain
• Canary Wharf, Isle of Dogs, London, United Kingdom

Arts and entertainment

• Black Canary, a DC Comics superhero, first appeared in 1947
  • Sara Lance/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
• Canary dance, 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, a 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, 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), 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