London Fancy show standard

Posted on 07/03/202020/04/2020 by Huw Evans 3 Comments

Regular readers of this blog will be aware that the London Fancy canary passed the second of three tests at the World Show in Matosinhos, Portugal last month. If you didn’t know, you can read my report here. I don’t want to prejudge the outcome, but recognition of the London Fancy by COM would give […]... Read More

TV celebrity show

Posted on 27/03/201827/03/2018 by Huw Evans Leave a comment

Starring the London Fancy with a supporting cast of Piet Renders and Theo Minten at the Meijels Pracht show, the Netherlands. Click on the video below: ... Read More

Lizarddag 2017 LF & Lizards at the show-FI

A visit to Piet, 2017

Posted on 12/11/2017 by Huw Evans 9 Comments

2017 has been an eventful year for Piet Renders (1). A fall at work resulted in a broken pelvis and a damaged spine amongst other injuries, and whilst he has recovered, he still has pain and limited mobility in his left arm which has prevented him from returning to work. The fall happened during the […]... Read More

Lizarddag 2017- Mealy LF bred by PRenders-FSS

Lizarddag 2017: the London Fancies

Posted on 04/11/201701/11/2017 by Huw Evans 1 Comment

Of all the innovations at the 2017 edition of the Lizarddag, the introduction of a class for London Fancies is surely the one that will be remembered as a major step forward. I realise that classes for London Fancies have been provided for several years at the National Exhibition of Birds and at the South […]... Read More

Bird’s eye view: London Fancy look-alikes

Posted on 05/05/2017 by Huw Evans 6 Comments

A photograph of a white ‘London Fancy’ appeared on Kanarioloog last autumn, but was soon taken down. I feared that might be the last we would see of the bird, but thanks to friends in Spain and Belgium, I have managed to track it down.... Read More

Variegation, part 4: the fugitive black gene

Posted on 22/02/201722/02/2017 by Huw Evans 6 Comments

The general tendency of the whole Canary tribe is to struggle out of darkness into light. W.A. Blakston (1) In this short series we have looked at variegation through its manifestations in other species: greenfinches, budgerigars and chickens. When it comes to visual impact however, no canary accomplished the ‘struggle out of darkness into light’ […]... Read More

World Show 2017, part 4: the London Fancy

Posted on 30/01/201730/01/2017 by Huw Evans 6 Comments

A class of London Fancies was presented at the 2017 World Show in a section officially known as Nouvelles Race en étude (pas de medailles), in other words for appraisal rather competition. This is part of COM’s process of evaluating a new breed before it can be recognised officially. I’m not going to go into the […]... Read More

fine spangled sort

The London Fancy and the Lizard canary . . . for those who are very curious

Piet Renders