The song is constant. From the cages lining the walls to the cages stacked neatly atop each other in the center of the floor, this second-floor room in this stately Maitland home is alive with ...

Sue Sausser woke and found feathers everywhere. Her bird cage was open — one canary was dead, the other terrified. A brown owl had flown into the 10th story apartment through the open balcony door.

Following a deadly explosion in a Welsh coal mine in 1896, an engineer called John Haldane invented a type of bird cage that allowed canaries to accompany miners into the depths. The small songbirds ...