From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Harz Roller
Harz Roller
By patient breeding a breed of canary was able to be
produced that had a very pleasant, melodious song, full
of variety and delivered with an apparently closed beak.
Birds as an alarm system in
mines
The breeding and sale of this popular breed of canary was
an important secondary occupation for the mining folk
as was the making of cages for the birds. Especially in
the second half of the 19th century the business for these
canaries boomed. In contrast to widespread legend, the
birds were not used in the mines to indicate the presence
of oxygen, they were too valuable for that. The Harz min-
Domestic canary (Serinus canaria forma domestica) ers used captured wild birds for that purpose.
Harz Roller is the name of a breed of domestic canary
bred in the Upper Harz mountains of Germany. The birds
External links
were bred in the Upper Harz between Lautenthal and • Harz Roller Museum in Sankt Andreasberg
Sankt Andreasberg in the middle of the 19th century and • Information on the breeding and keeping of Harz
achieved European-wide fame. Since 2001 there has been Rollers (in German)
a Harz Roller Museum in Sankt Andreasberg.
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Categories:
• Mining in the Harz
• Domesticated birds
• Birds kept as pets
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