Police Bust Canary-Fighting Ring

By Corey • July 27, 2009 • 1 comment

I never knew that people would pit canaries against each other and gamble on them, but a canary-fighting ring centered in a Shelton, Connecticut home was broken up over the weekend. Nineteen people were arrested and charged with animal cruelty and illegal gambling. WVIT has a video report.

UPDATE: CNN says “police seized approximately 150 birds” in the raid. The birds were apparently Saffron Finches (Sicalis flaveola), a South American tanager, closely related to the seedeaters.

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Corey

Corey is a New Yorker who has lived most of his life upstate but has spent the last three years in Queens. He's only been birding since 2005 but has garnered a respectable life list by birding whenever he wasn't working as a union representative or spending time with his family. He lives in Forest Hills with Daisy, their son, Desmond Shearwater, and their two indoor cats, Hunter and B.B.