# Canary

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**Canary** originally referred to the Spanish island of [Gran Canaria](/source/Gran_Canaria) in the North Atlantic Ocean and the surrounding [Canary Islands](/source/Canary_Islands). It may also refer to:

## Animals

### Birds

- Canaries, birds in the genera *[Serinus](/source/Serinus)* and *[Crithagra](/source/Crithagra)* including, among others: - [Atlantic canary](/source/Atlantic_canary) (*Serinus canaria*), a small wild bird - [Domestic canary](/source/Domestic_canary), *Serinus canaria domestica*, a small pet or aviary bird, also responsible for the "canary yellow" color term - [Yellow canary](/source/Yellow_canary) (*Crithagra flaviventris*), a small bird

### Fish

- [Canary damsel](/source/Canary_damsel) (*Similiparma lurida*), fish of the family Pomacentridae, found in the eastern Atlantic Ocean
- [Canary moray](/source/Canary_moray) (*Gymnothorax bacalladoi*), an eel of the family Muraenidae
- [Canary rockfish](/source/Canary_rockfish) (*Sebastes pinniger*), of the family Sebastidae, found in the northeast Pacific Ocean

## People

- [Canary Burton](/source/Canary_Burton) (born 1942), American keyboardist, composer and writer
- [Canary Conn](/source/Canary_Conn) (born 1949), American entertainer and author
- [Bill Canary](/source/Bill_Canary) (fl. 1994), Republican campaign consultant in Alabama, Georgia, U.S.
- [Richard Canary](/source/Richard_Canary) (born in 1962), American mathematician at the University of Michigan
- [David Canary](/source/David_Canary) (1938–2015), American actor

## Places

- [Canary District](/source/Canary_District), a housing development in Toronto, Canada
- [Canary Islands](/source/Canary_Islands), Spain
- [Canary Wharf](/source/Canary_Wharf), Isle of Dogs, London, United Kingdom

## Arts and entertainment

- [Black Canary](/source/Black_Canary), a DC Comics superhero, first appeared in 1947 - [Sara Lance](/source/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](/source/Hunter_%C3%97_Hunter)*
- [Canary dance](/source/Canary_dance), a Renaissance dance popular in Europe in the 16th and 17th centuries
- ["Canary" (*NCIS*)](/source/Canary_(NCIS)), a 2013 episode of the American television series *NCIS*
- ["The Canary" (short story)](/source/The_Canary_(short_story)), 1923 short story by Katherine Mansfield
- [*Canary* (visual novel)](/source/Canary_(visual_novel)), released in 2000

## Technology

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

## Other uses

- [Canary, LLC](/source/Canary,_LLC), an oilfield services company
- [*The Canary* (website)](/source/The_Canary_(website)), a news media outlet created in 2015
- [Canary melon](/source/Canary_melon), a yellow fruit
- [Canary Current](/source/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.](/source/Norwich_City_F.C.)
- Canary sack, white fortified wine ([sack](/source/Sack_(wine))) imported from the Canary Islands
- [Canary wood (disambiguation)](/source/Canary_wood_(disambiguation)), a name used to describe wood from a number of tree species
- [Canary yellow](/source/Canary_yellow), a shade of yellow
- [Warrant canary](/source/Warrant_canary), a published statement, the removal of which indicates the publisher received a National Security Letter

## See also

- [Canaries (disambiguation)](/source/Canaries_(disambiguation))
- [Canary trap](/source/Canary_trap), a method for exposing an information leak
- [Sentinel species](/source/Sentinel_species), such as the "canary in a coal mine"
- [Calamity Jane](/source/Calamity_Jane) Cannary (1852–1903), American frontierswoman
- [Canarinho](/source/Canarinho) ("Little canary"), Brazilian football association team's nickname
- [José Alberto "El Canario"](/source/Jos%C3%A9_Alberto_%22El_Canario%22) (born 1958), Dominican salsa singer
- [Conary (disambiguation)](/source/Conary_(disambiguation))

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