Selective breeding
Many species have been changed by humans through artificial selection. Last weekend I was invited by my old pal Geoff Capes to the North Walsham small birds show where I did a bit of judging. What an interesting life I lead. Here I am:
Lucky I had my binoculars handy. This first bird is the original wild type canary:
Look at the diversity of the birds that have been artificially selected from this form of the canary:
Common or cage singing canary... evil hunchback canary.... orange canary....
This is actually a Norwich canary... white canary.....
60's beatles canary... the champ.
The sprowston BLUE.