"Blue Lizard Canaries have been around for many many years. There was time when they had become nearly extinct. Presently Blue Lizards are not recognized by most associations, however, they are handsome birds and many lizard breeders consider them the most attractive of all lizards. Although fairly common in Europe, blue lizards are rare in the USA. Presently, I am working on developing a new line here in my aviary."  KR

Blue Lizard from Dave Allen

HISTORY OF THE BLUE LIZARD CANARY

Back in 1893, Robert L. Wallace wrote a book about canaries. In  it he revealed that old canary fanciers had told him that Blue Lizards were plentiful some 50 to 60 years before.
 He describes the Blue Lizard as being of a soft grey colouration with a delicate Blue tint and with well defined spangles. Mr Wallace considered this Blue to be the most hand-some of the Lizard canaries.
In a later article in Cage Birds in 1903, he reported that the Blue Lizard was Extinct.

 

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About Blue Lizard canaries

Blue Lizards are not a mutaions, but just a combination of green and white. A blue Lizard is a true Lizard, because you bred both blue's and"normal's" in the same nest. When pairing blue lizards they should be mated to a "normal" Lizard. It doesn't matter if the cock or hen is a Blue Lizard you will still get both "normal" Lizards and Blue lizards in the same nest. 

Blue lizards are exactally the same as "normal" Lizards, you get them in all the cap combinations, clear Broken and Non caps.

I judge my Blues as I would my "normal Lizards using the Lizard Canary Association of Great Britain's Standard, with a few suggested points to be looked for in Blue Lizards such as ground colour and colouration you are looking for.

You can contact me via my email david.allen9750@ntlworld.com
 
I have been breeding Blue lizards for over 16 years now. In 1995 I won Best Novice Any other Variety Canary at The National Cage & aviary Birds show in Birmingham NEC with a Blue Lizard.
In 2010 I showed two Blue lizards at the World show in Portugal, where one of my Blue lizards gained 90 points 1 point off a Bronze medal. 

World Show results.

Well as I have said before Blue Lizard are recognized  in Europe. I was pleased to see a good number of Blue Lizards entered, 25 singles but only 2 stams. 

I entered two single Blue Lizards and had hoped I might get up amongst them, well I didn’t do to bad getting 90 points and 87 points with my two entries. The gold  in the single class went to Lisa Mussarutto from Italy with 93 points a Clear Cap Blue hen, this hen was full of breast work and had good dark spangles but not very straight. Silver & bronze went to Wahl Gerhard with 92 & 91 points each. The silver medal winner was a Non cap blue Cock, this bird had a lovely straight spangles on it back but very little breast work and the bird was slightly small. Wahl’s bronze medal winner was a Clear Cap blue Hen with more breast work than the silver medal winner, but the spangles on it’s back were large but didn’t seem to line up very well. 

This made my Broken Cap Blue Hen 4th with 90 points along with an exhibit from Jac Gubbell.{ we were the only two exhibits in this class with 90 points]

I felt [this is my opinion] that my Blue had a very good straight spangles on his back, but maybe not so defined as the bronze medal winner . All the legs and feet were darker than mine as well.

Just a few words on the two stams of Blue’s, Gold went to Lisa Mussarutto  3 of these were birds were very nice clear caps but the fourth was what we would class as Broken cap , they got 3 x 90 1x 91 a total of 366.

The silver medal went to Jac Gubbels  again these birds were in my opinion not very evenly matched, but still 4 nice examples of Blue Lizards gaining 2x90 2x88 total 363.

I am an LCA member and a LCA panel judge, and I know the LCA rule only recognize Gold & Silver.

But I think now the LCA need to consider the possibility of taking on Blues in the near future it cannot be done over night and it should not be rush into but discussion and debate on this subject need to be heard

And I am not the only LCA member who breeds Blues.

So are blue lizard your cup of tea!

So what is your views on this? 
 

By David Allen. DTA LIZARD STUD

 

BLUE LIZARD’S ARE THEY  YOUR CUP OF TEA?

This is the title of a article written by Roy Stringer some 15 years ago when  one of my Blue Lizard  took best Any Other Variety Canary at the 1995 National..

If this question was asked today I think you have a much different answer to what you got 15 years ago. I think that it would be more likely that more would say Yes, than you were back in 1995. 

Well over the last few years there seems to be more interest in Blue Lizards and in recent times I have seem them appearing more and more on the show bench being shown in the Any Other Variety Canary class. More people have been saying that they like them.

Well I have been breeding them for 16 years now and my Blue Lizards are true Lizards.

I have been very carefully in the keeping of accurate records of my breeding results of my Blue Lizards.

And I can adamantly say that Blue lizard is not a mutation just a mixing of white and green and is dominant, as you get both Blues and Normal’s in the same nest.

It is not sex linked either because you get blue lizard and normal Lizards in the same nest no matter which way round the cock is in a Blue x Normal mating. So this means that the cock birds are not split, so therefore it would not effect the pool gene and not damage a stud of Lizards.

Because a Blue either is or is not Blue. I have increasing used better quality normal Lizards with my Blue Lizards to improve the quality of them, and I now believe that they are equal to my normal Lizards some even better than my normals. Also the legs of my Blue lizard are much dark than that of my normal Lizard, I am not sure why this is.

So where do we go from here? A  question I have asked myself many times over the years breeding  Blue Lizards, but now this question seems even more important now. Blue Lizard have been around on the continent for many years and very little is made of them, it seems to only be the UK that has a problem with them, But WHY? 

We have explained that they cannot corrupt a stud of Lizards, because the Blue gene is Dominant!!

 They are now accepted by COM who have now put on classes for Blue Lizards for the first time at the 2010  World Show, which is to be held in Porto Portugal.  I have entered  two singles, so this may well put the cat amongst the pigeon as they say or should that be the canaries!  

I have always judged my own Blue’s to the LCA standard , because they are Lizards! 

There is no mention of colour in the standard. So all these points can be applied to any colour Lizard really.