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| | Flock Talk eZine Archives, Issue 44 |
 | | To get around this, and because the Wild Canary was thought to be only a larger and better-voiced race of the European Serin during that period and for centuries thereafter, the early aviculturalists often unwittingly bred the two together. |
| | It’s been theorized that the split in the evolutionary history between the Serin and the Canary occurred fairly recently, some twelve to fifteen thousand years ago when much of the northern hemisphere was still locked in the waning grip of the last Ice Age. |
| | Today, some ornithologists combine the Wild Canary and the European Serin into a polytypic species family group or 'clade' (sometimes thought to include the Syrian [Tristram’s] Serin, S. syriacus, as well), to indicate the closeness of their relationship, but there’s very little doubt any more that these birds are actually separate species. |
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