Canary

Canary originally referred to the island of Gran Canaria, in Spain, and the group of surrounding islands (the Canary Islands). It may also refer to:

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