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Standards: FIFE CANARY
| Head | Small, round and neat when viewed from any angle. Eyes near centre, dark and bright. Beak fine. | 10 points |
| Neck | Moulded smoothly into body, showing curve at nape. | 5 points |
| Body | Back well filled and nicely rounded but not heavy, the line gradually tapering to the vent. | 15 points |
| Wings | Compact, carried close to the body, meeting at the tips just below the root of the tail. | 5 points |
| Tail | Close packed and narrow, nicely rounded and filled in at the root. | 5 points |
| Legs and Feet | Medium length showing a little thigh. Feet proportinate. | 5 points |
| Colour | Natural rich soft and pure, as level in tint as possible throughout. | 10 points |
| Plumage | Close, firm and fine, presenting a smooth glossy silky appearance and free from frills or roughness. | 10 points |
| Position & Carriage | Semi-erect standing at about 60 degree angle. Alert and jaunty, moving confidently between perches. | 10 points |
| Condition | Clean and in perfect health. Correctly staged. | 5 points |
| Size | Ideal length: 115mm / 4.5 inches or less. Tendency to the diminutive. | 20 points |
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TOTAL: |
————– 100 points |
SHOW CAGE
The show cage for the Fife canary is the Dewar show cage. This is the same cage as used for the Border canary except that the perches are 1/2 inch diameter instead of 5/8 inch for the Border and the gap between them is one wire less i.e. position one perch at the drinker hole then count 6 wires and position the second perch.
| Overall length | 12 5/8 inches |
| Overall Width | 4 3/4 inches |
| Overall Height | 11 inches and ends 9 inches |
| Base | 3/32 inches thick |
| Bottom Rail | 1 3/8 inches wide x 3/16 inches thick |
| Corner Posts | 3 1/4 inches long x 3/16 inches square |
| Seed Drawer | 1 ½ inches long x ¾ inch wide |
| Drawer Handle | ½ inch x No. 6 round head screw |
| Drinking Hole | 7/8 inch long x ¾ inch wide |
| Crossbar | 4 ½ inches from base inside |
| Frame | 16 gauge wire |
| Filling | 18 gauge wire |
| Perches | 1/2 inch in diameter. The gap between them is one wire less. Position one perch at the drinker hole then count 6 wires and position the second perch. |
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| Variegated Cinnamon Fife | Variegated Fife | Variegated Blue Fife |
| Colour / Color | Description |
| Yellow | An intense yellow. Not washed-out or pale. Also called Intensive Yellow. The Yellow is lipochrome - a fat-soluble dye that colours the feathers. |
| Buff | A paler shade of yellow. Also known as Frosted. This is caused by the bird having bigger and more rounded feathers, where the edge is frosted white. |
| White | A white canary is “white” and may have very slight tinges of yellow on its flanks. |
| Green | This is a yellow or buff bird with a black and brown “melanin” pigment superimposed over their ground colour that gives the bird a greenish appearance. The wild and original canaries are this colour. A true green bird also has dark skin on legs and feet. |
| Cinnamon | This is a yellow or buff bird with a brown only melanin pigment superimposed over their ground colour which gives the bird a brownish appearance. Cinnamons have pink eyes which can be observed easily when first born. |
| Blue | Blue is a white bird with a black and brown melanin pigment superimposed over their white ground colour which gives the bird a bluish appearance. |
| fawn | fawn is a white bird with Cinnamon - brown only melanin pigment superimposed over their ground colour which gives the bird a tan/light brown appearance. |
| Grizzled | Any coloured bird with a patch of light grey. Show-term. |
| Lightly Variegated | The bird has less than 50% dark feathers: Green, Cinnamon, fawn or Blue. Show-term. |
| Heavily Variegated | The bird has more than 50%-75% dark feathers: Green, Cinnamon, fawn or Blue. Show-term. |
| 3 Parts Dark | The bird has 75% or more dark feathers: Green, Cinnamon, fawn or Blue. Show-term. |
| Clear | Clear bird is all yellow, all buff or all white – no markings at all. |
| Ticked | The bird has a single small patch of dark feathers. A ticked bird would have a single green, cinnamon, blue or fawn mark coverable by the size of a penny or 3 flights next to each other forming a solid mark in either a wing or tail. Show-term. |
| Self | A self bird should have no light markings so would be all green or all cinnamon or all blue or all fawn. |
| Foul | A Foul bird is the opposite to a ticked bird. The bird has a single light mark coverable by the size of a penny or 3 light flights next to each other forming a solid mark in either a wing or tail. |
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