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	The Canary's Nest Marvin Walton 4400 Wellesley Court Virginia Beach, VA 23456-1473 757-905-1572 (H) 757-642-5384 (C) E-mail: marvin@thecanarysnest.com accepted with telephone orders! *Breeding season is winding down soon. I still have some canaries available. Please send us an email or give us a call to see what is available!* Reasonable priced shipping is available.
* I will be working with many new color mutations this breeding season, Red Black Cobalts, Red Black Cobalt Mosaics, Red Brown Phaeo Mosaics and several more! Contact me to be added to the list for these gorgeous new color mutations!* We are currently working with birds from European Bloodlines, many nice birds from this stock are being hatched.
CLICK HERE FOR NEWS ARTICLE Article and photographs from The Virginian-Pilot - Sunday, February 10, 2002 Written by: Diane Tennant Photographs by: Bill Tiernan, The Virginian-Pilot	Click on the following links to learn more about the beautiful birds at The Canary's Nest. Scroll down the page to learn about The Canary's Nest and its owner. · Canary Order Form/Price List · Nutritional Articles · Basic Pet Canary Care · Photos from the Aviary · Colorbred or Colorfed? · The Canary Primer · Canary Links · Seed Cleaner · Testimonial · E-mail
The Canary's Nest has become a "passion" for its owner, Marvin B. Walton. It began in 1995 in Virginia Beach, Virginia. My interest in birds came from a long association with other types of aviary work. My father and two brothers have over 20 years experience in raising game birds. Together they hatched and reared in excess of over 40 breeds of quail, pheasant and partridge. Always interested in avian work and birds, I decided to try my hand at canary breeding, something that did not require the space necessary for game bird breeding.	American Singer Canary
SONGS OF THE CANARY Would you like to hear the song of the canary? The selection below is an .rm file. To listen, you will need Real Player. It's free and you can download by clicking on the link below. · Song of the Spanish Timbrado Free Real Player© Download	*A Beautiful Red Factor Canary* I began with Red Factors, a breed that is not normally recommended for beginners, not because of the difficulty in breeding them, but Red Factors have a tendency to "let the breeder down" by not performing their breeding tasks as readily as other birds. I obtained my breeding stock from one of the best - if not the best - Red Factor canary breeders in the United States, Mr. Robert Dyer. I have Red Factors in all colors from light to dark in melanin and lipochromes. The Canary's Nest is proudly working to maintain the best strain of Red Factors available anywhere that are "COLOR-BRED NOT COLOR-FED." My birds are carefully selected to produce the highest quality birds for color as well as conformation. I am striving to produce new colors and mutations using existing genetic qualities already inherent in the breeding birds genes.
I am what most breeders would consider a small time breeder, currently maintaining 60 breeding pairs of canaries, not all of which are Red Factors. I also have Spanish Timbrados, I am working on creating a line of Red German Rollers and I must add that this is quite the challenge, not sure how successful I'll be, but I'll keep trying. I do not cross my canary breeds with each other; I strive to propagate the species to maintain purity to the maximum form available. I use closed bands that are traceable to the bird clubs from which they are obtained. For Red Factors the band used is the initials NCA followed by a number, and the year that the bird was hatched.
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