I’D LIKE to respond to Steven Chennells’s letter “New colour Glosters” (Cage & Aviary Birds, January 31).
As a starting point in this debate, maybe we need to recognise how the Gloster canary was created. Around a hundred years ago, the Gloster canary did not exist. Thankfully, though, the vision to create it did. The start of its evolution towards the wonderful breed we see today only happened because different breeds of canary were crossed together to provide the starting platform for today’s bird, with the long-term aim of
