Australian plainhead

The Australian plainhead is a breed of domestic canary that was created for show purposes.

[2] Decades later, after the modern Norwich had largely displaced the old-style birds from the Victorian show scene, a club was started in 1953 to preserve the old breed which was renamed the Australian plainhead.

[3] Whilst the Australian plainhead remains a rare breed, it is now far more widespread with birds being bred throughout Australia and in the US.

[4] Australian plainhead may be green, blue (grey), yellow, white, cinnamon, fawn and variegated.

Show birds may be "colour-fed" carotenoids during molting which gives new feathers an orange hue, but this is optional.