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A brief history of the Fife

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HOW much do we know about the Fife canary? Many readers will have more knowledge than me about this fascinating bird. However, I will try here to summarise what I have gathered since I began with Fifes in the winter of 1994.

But before I describe my involvement with the Fife canary, we must look at the development of the Border canary, in the middle of the 20th century to the early post-War period. It is since then that the canary with a Border/Fife shape has developed. Fifty-plus years ago the

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