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Bridgeville, California (population 25) was the first town to be sold on eBay in 2002, and has been up for sale three times since. [1] In January 2003, Thatch Cay, the last privately held and undeveloped U.S. Virgin Island, was listed for auction by Idealight International. The minimum bid was US$3 million and the sale closed January 16, 2003. [2]
Canaries were especially good for this purpose as, unlike finches, doves and mice, they reacted very quickly to carbon monoxide. While a mouse would not have a noticeable reaction until after up to 70 minutes to a carbon monoxide concentration of 0.77% in the air, a canary will fall off its perch after as little as 2.5 minutes from a ...
A white canary nesting Feral yellow canary at Midway Atoll Red factor canary Sleeping canary. Domestic canaries are generally divided into three main groups: Colour-bred canaries (bred for their many colour mutations – Ino, Eumo, Satinette, Bronze, Ivory, Onyx, Mosaic, Brown, red factor, Green (Wild Type): darkest black and brown melanin shade in yellow ground birds, Yellow Melanin: mutation ...
Domestic canary (Serinus canaria domestica) Wild canary (Serinus canaria canaria) the 15th century CE: the Canary Islands, Europe: coal mining, fighting, research, show, pets Slight physical changes Common in the wild and in captivity 2d Passeriformes: Society finch or Bengalese finch (Lonchura striata domestica)
eBay office in Toronto, Canada. eBay Inc. (/ ˈ iː b eɪ / EE-bay, often stylized as ebay or Ebay) is an American multinational e-commerce company based in San Jose, California, that allows users to buy or view items via retail sales through online marketplaces and websites in 190 markets worldwide.
The Atlantic canary (Serinus canaria), known worldwide simply as the wild canary and also called the island canary, common canary, or canary, is a small passerine bird belonging to the genus Serinus in the true finch family, Fringillidae. It is native to the Canary Islands, the Azores, and Madeira.
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 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
The yellow canary was formerly placed in the genus Serinus but a phylogenetic study published in 2012 found that the genus was polyphyletic. [6] In the reorganisation to create monophyletic genera, Serinus was split and a number of species including the yellow canary were moved to the resurrected genus Crithagra that had originally been ...