blue Sparrow in Sydney

 I found this by googling 'Daily Mail' and typing 'blue sparrow' into the
Search panel.
  I have seen a bird like it, but it wasn't a Sparrow. It was a very
elegant and expensive Canary, carefully selected for grey colouring, and
it had a distinct bluish tone to its feathers. Wild unmodified Canaries
are green, so perhaps they have some genes for blue in the system.  It's a
long time since I looked closely at a Canary and I'm not sure how closely
they resemble House Sparrows in figure. Escaped SCanaries seldom survive
predators for long.

Anthea Fleming




> Quite an interesting article, but the link as it stands is incomplete,
> so don't just click on the link, or it says the page no longer
> exists.  You need to COPY the address, past it into your browser's
> window, and add an 'l' onto the end before trying to load.
>
> Cheers,
> John Tongue
> Ulverstone, Tas.
>
>
> On 29/04/2009, at 9:34 PM, Andrew Taylor wrote:
>
>> http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1173669/Blue-sparrow-mystery-Unique-bird-confounds-experts.htm
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