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This is a list of pigeon breeds. Pigeons and doves are both members of the bird family Columbidae, with doves tending to be smaller birds and pigeons larger breeds, although this distinction is not consistently applied.

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A

  • Aachen Lacquer Shield Owl
  • Aachen Pouter
  • Aargau Peak Crested
  • Absy Egyptian Swift
  • African Owl
  • Agaran Boinije
  • Ahmar Gohzar Egyptian Swift
  • Alpine Swift
  • Altenburg
  • American Bohemian Pouter
  • American Flying Baldhead
  • American Flying Flight
  • American Flying Tumbler
  • American Giant Homer
  • American Giant Rumbler
  • American Modern Flight
  • American Roller
  • American Show Racer
  • American Strasser
  • Anbary Asmar Egyptian Swift
  • Ancient Tumbler
  • Antwerp
  • Antwerp Smerle
  • Arabian Trumpeter
  • Arad Barred Highflier
  • Archangel
  • Archangel White Trjasuni
  • Armenian Tumbler
  • Asiatic Crack Tumbler
  • Australian Performing Tumbler
  • Australian Saddleback Tumbler

B

  • Baku Boinije
  • Baska Tumbler
  • Barb
  • Bavarian Pouter
  • Beak-Crested Jacobin
  • Belgian Ringbeater
  • Berlin Medium Face Tumbler
  • Berlin Long Face Tumbler
  • Berlin Short Face Tumbler
  • Bernburg
  • Berne Half Beak
  • Berne Peak Crested
  • Bernhardin Magpie
  • Birmingham Roller
  • Bloody
  • Blue Tumbler of Cluj
  • Bohemian Pouter
  • Bohmentaub
  • Bokhara Trumpeter
  • Bokhara Tumbler
  • Bolk Egyptian Swift
  • Boston Blue Tumbler
  • Bremen Tumbler
  • Breslauer Tumbler
  • British Show Racer
  • Brunner Pouter
  • Bucharest Ciung Highflier
  • Bucharest Show Tumbler
  • Buda Grizzle Budapest Short Face Tumbler
  • Budapest Muffed Tumbler
  • Budapest Muffled Stork
  • Budapest Short Face Tumbler
  • Bursa

C

  • Carneau
  • Cassel Tumbler
  • Catalonian Head and Neck Tumbler
  • Catalonian Laced Bordench Mondain
  • Catalonian Tumbler
  • Cauchois
  • Central Asiatic Roller
  • Chinese Blue
  • Chinese Nasal Tufted
  • Chinese Owl
  • Clean Legged Fullhead Swallow
  • Clean Legged Spot Swallow
  • Coburg Lark
  • Colillano Pouter
  • Cologne Tumbler
  • Crescent
  • Crested Soultz
  • Cumulet
  • Czech Bagdad
  • Czech Ice Pouter
  • Czech Muffed Tumbler
  • Czech Trumpeter

D

E

F

  • Fantail
  • Fat Shan Blue
  • Felegyhazer Tumbler
  • Fish Eye Roller
  • Florentine
  • Flying Oriental Roller
  • Flying Performing Roller
  • Flying Saddle Homer
  • Flying Tippler
  • Fork-Tailed
  • Franconian Heart Magpie
  • Franconian Toy Self
  • Franconian Trumpeter
  • Franconian Velvet Shield
  • French Bagdad
  • French Mondain
  • French Pouter
  • Frillback

G

H

  • Hague Highflier
  • Halaby Egyptian Swift
  • Hamburg Sticken
  • Hamburg Tumbler
  • Hana Pouter
  • Hanover Tumbler
  • Helmet
  • Hessian Pouter
  • Hindi Fantail
  • Hollander
  • Holle Cropper
  • Hungarian
  • Hungarian Buga Pigeon
  • Hungarian Egri Tumbler
  • Hungarian Giant House Pigeon
  • Hungarian Giant Pouter
  • Hungarian Highflier
  • Hungarian Short Beaker
  • Huppé Picard
  • Hyacinth

I

  • Ice Pigeon
  • Indian Fantail
  • Indian Fantasy (pigeon)
  • Indian Gola
  • Indian Mondain
  • Indian Pearl Highflier
  • Indian Pigeon
  • Iranian Highflier
  • Iran Roller
  • Italian Owl

J

  • Jacobin
  • Jerezano Pouter
  • Jewel Mondain
  • Jiennense Pouter

K

  • Kaluga Turmani
  • Karakand Fantail
  • Karakandy Egyptian Swift
  • Kazan Tumbler
  • Kelebek
  • King (pigeon breed)
  • Kiskunfelegyhaza Tumbler
  • Kojook Egyptian Swift
  • Komorner Tumbler
  • Konigsberg Moorhead
  • Koros Tumbler

L

  • Lacene
  • Lahore
  • Laudino Sevillano Pouter
  • Lebanon
  • Lenardo
  • Lille Pouter
  • Lotan
  • Lucerne Peak Crested

M

  • Macedonian Turbit
  • Majorcan Bort Runt
  • Majorcan Esbart Roller
  • Maltese
  • Marchenero Pouter
  • Mariola
  • Markische Magpie Tumbler
  • Martham
  • Memel Highflier
  • Mesawed Egyptian Swift
  • Micholaiyvski Shield Tumbler
  • Miniature American Crested
  • Modena
  • Modern Show Flight
  • Modern Spanish Thief Pouter
  • Mokee
  • Montauben
  • Moravian White Head
  • Morrillero Alicantino Pouter
  • Moroncelo Pouter
  • Moscat
  • Moscovite Tumbler
  • Moulter
  • Munsterland Field Pigeon
  • Muzza Broad Meadows uleh Pigeon

N

  • New York Danish Flying Tumbler
  • Norwegian Tumbler
  • Norwich Cropper
  • Novi Sad Short Face Tumbler
  • Nun (pigeon)
  • Nuremberg Lark
  • Nurnberg Swallow
  • Nis’s white tail pigeon

O

P

  • Pappatacci
  • Parlor Roller
  • Parlor Tumbler
  • Persian Highflyer
  • Pheasant Pigeon
  • Piacention
  • Pigmy Mariola
  • Pigmy Pouter
  • Polish Barb
  • Polish Gansel Tumbler
  • Polish Highflier (Galincian Highflier)
  • Polish Kronen Tumbler
  • Polish Lynx
  • Polish Orlik (Ukrainian Skycutter)
  • Polish Owl
  • Pomeranian Pouter
  • Pomeranian Show Crest
  • Portuguese Breeder
  • Portuguese Tumbler
  • Posen Colored Head Tumbler
  • Poster
  • Prachen Kanik
  • Prager Short Face Tumbler
  • Prague Medium Face Tumbler
  • Ptarmigan

Q

  • Quet Roller

R

  • Racing Homer
  • Rafeno Pouter
  • Rakovnik Roller
  • Rawson Short Face Tumbler
  • Regensburg Tumbler
  • Rehani Egyptian Swift
  • Reinaugen Tumbler
  • Reversewing Color Pigeon
  • Reversewing Pouter
  • Rhine Ringbeater
  • Rock Pigeon
  • Roller Pigeon
  • Romagnol
  • Romanian Argintiu Tumbler
  • Romanian Beard
  • Romanian Black-Cherry Tumbler
  • Romanian Blind Tumbler
  • Romanian Blue Barred Whitetail
  • Romanian Coffee-Colored Tumbler
  • Romanian Gagiu
  • Romanian Moriscar Roller
  • Romanian Naked-Neck Tumbler
  • Romanian Silvery Tumbler
  • Romanian Orbetean Tumbler
  • Romanian Tshoong Tumbler
  • Romanian Whitetail Tumbler
  • Romanian Satu-Mare Tumbler
  • Roshan Chirag
  • Royal Snow Tumbler
  • Russian Akkermann Tumbler
  • Russian Martini
  • Russian Tumbler
  • Rzhev Startail Tumbler

S

  • Saar Pigeon
  • Safi Egyptian Swift
  • Saint
  • Saint Louis Arch Crested Fantail
  • Satu-Mare Tumbler
  • Saxon Breast Pigeon
  • Saxon Fairy Swallow
  • Saxon Field Pigeon
  • Saxon Monk
  • Saxon Pouter
  • Saxon Priest
  • Saxon Shield
  • Saxon Spot
  • Saxon Stork
  • Saxon White Tail
  • Scandaroon
  • Schalaster Pouter
  • Schmalkender Moorhead
  • Schmolin
  • Schoneberger Streifige Tumbler
  • Seraphim Pigeon
  • Serbian Highflier
  • Shack Kee
  • Shakhsharli
  • Show Cumulet
  • Show Racing Homer
  • Show Tippler
  • Silesian Moorhead
  • Silesian Pouter
  • Silesian White Head
  • Single Crested Priest
  • Slovak Pouter
  • Sottobanca
  • South German Charcoal Lark
  • South German Latz
  • South German Monk
  • South German Moorhead
  • South German Shield
  • South German Spot
  • South German Tigermohr
  • South German White Tail
  • Spaniard
  • Spanish Bagdad
  • Spanish Barb
  • Spanish Flamenca Runt
  • Spanish Frillback Bagadette
  • Spanish Gabacho Runt
  • Spanish Little Friar Tumbler
  • Spanish Mondain
  • Spanish Monjin
  • Spanish Naked Neck Pigeon
  • Spanish Nun
  • Spanish Owl
  • Spanish Owl Pouter
  • Spanish Thief Pouter
  • Spangeled Magpie Purzler of Satu-Mare
  • Srebrniak (Perlovy)
  • Starling
  • Starwitzer Pouter
  • Steinheim Bagdad
  • Stellerkrofer
  • Stettiner Tumbler
  • Steiger Pouter
  • Stork Pigeon
  • Stralsund Highflier
  • Strasser
  • Sverdlovsk blue-gray mottle-headed pigeon
  • Swallow
  • Swing Pouter (Stavak Pouter, Steller Pouter)
  • Swiss Crescent
  • Swiss Mondain
  • Syrian Bagdad
  • Syrian Coop Tumbler
  • Syrian Fantail
  • Syrian Halabi
  • Syrian Sabuni Tumbler
  • Syrian Swift
  • Syrian Turbiteen
  • Szegediner Tumbler

T

  • Taganrog Tumbler
  • Taqlaji
  • Texan Pioneer
  • Thai Fantail
  • Thai Laugher
  • Thurgau Peak Crested
  • Thuringian Breast Pigeon
  • Thuringian Feldfarbentaube
  • Thuringian Goldkafertaube
  • Thuringian Pouter
  • Thuringian Self Colored
  • Thuringian Shield
  • Thuringian Spot
  • Thuringian Stork
  • Thuringian Swallow
  • Thuringian White Bib
  • Thuringian White Head
  • Thuringian Wingpigeon
  • Tiger Swallow
  • Tippler
  • Timisora Tumbler
  • Transylvanian Double-Crested Tumbler
  • Tumbler of Arad
  • Tumbler of Botoşani
  • Tumbler of Craiova
  • Tumbler of Kiev
  • Tumbler of Transylvania
  • Tumbler of Yassy
  • Tung Koon Paak
  • Turbit
  • Turbiteen Mövchen
  • Turisian Owl
  • Turkish Pigeon

U

V

  • Valencian Figurita
  • Valencian Giant Tenant Pigeon
  • Valencian Homer
  • Valencian Magany Homer
  • Valencian Peter Runt
  • Valencian Pouter
  • Verkehrtflügelfarbentaube
  • Vienna
  • Vienna Gansel
  • Vienna Medium Face Tumbler
  • Vienna Muffed Tumbler
  • Vienna Short Face Tumbler
  • Vienna White Shield Tumbler
  • Vogtland
  • Volga Russian Tumbler
  • Voorburg Shield Cropper

W

  • Warsaw Schmetterling (Warsaw Butterfly)
  • West of England Tumbler
  • Wuürttemberg Moorhead

Z

  • Zitterhal
  • Zurich White Tail
Columbidae

Subfamilies

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Pigeons and doves constitute the family Columbidae within the order Columbiformes, which include some 300 species of near passerine birds.
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Aves
Linnaeus, 1758

Orders

About two dozen - see section below

Birds (class Aves) are bipedal, warm-blooded, egg-laying vertebrate animals.
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breed is a domesticated subspecies or infrasubspecies of an animal. For a type to be recognised as a breed, there should be a viable true-breeding population. The term may also be used as a verb, meaning action intended to produce offspring.
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This is a list of Columbidae species, sortable by common or binomial name. For a list of domesticated varieties, see List of pigeon breeds

Name binomial
Rock Dove Columba livia
Stock Dove Columba oenas
Trocaz Pigeon Columba trocaz
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The Aachen Lacquer Shield Owl is a breed of Fancy pigeon developed over many years of selective breeding. Aachen Lacquer Shield Owls along with other varieties of domesticated pigeons are all descendants from the Rock Pigeon (Columba livia).
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The African Owl is a breed of Fancy pigeon developed over many years of selective breeding. African Owls along with other varieties of domesticated pigeons are all descendants from the Rock Pigeon (Columba livia).
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The American Show Racer pigeon is known as the "Bird of Dignity".

The breed began in the early 1950s with the finest Racing Homers selected for their breed type. Levi mentions Show Pen Racers in his book The Pigeon.
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The Arabian Trumpeter is a breed of Fancy pigeon developed over many years of selective breeding. Arabian Trumpeters along with other varieties of domesticated pigeons are all descendants from the Rock Pigeon (Columba livia).

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  • List of pigeon breeds

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The Archangel is a breed of Rock Pigeon, Columba livia, notable for the metallic sheen of its feathers. It is kept as an ornamental or fancy breed, valued for its unusual appearance. Archangels are small, weighing about 12 oz.
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The Australian Performing Tumbler (APT) is a breed of Fancy Pigeon.

Origin

This breed of Pigeon was developed in Australia from originally imported Tumbler Pigeon stocks.

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The Birmingham Rollers originated in England, where they were developed for their ability to do rapid backward somersaults while flying. There are also several other breeds of rollers. Show Rollers are much larger and are bred just for show.
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Bokhara Trumpeter is most noticeably characterized by its lengthy full muffs (feathers on the feet) and double crest which completely obscures the bird's eyes and gives it a look reminiscent of the English sheepdog.
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The British Show Racer is a breed of Fancy pigeon developed over many years of selective breeding. The British Show Racer along with other varieties of domesticated pigeons are all descendants from the Rock Pigeon (Columba livia).
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Budapest Short face tumblers are a type of pigeon that was bred in Budapest, Hungary.

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  • List of pigeon breeds

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Chinese Blue is a type of artificial pigment with colors blue or purple found in China between 500 B.C. and 220 A.D.. It was used in the decoration of the Xi'an Terracotta Army.
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The Chinese Owl is a breed of Fancy pigeon developed over many years of selective breeding. Chinese Owls along with other varieties of domesticated pigeons are all descendants from the Rock Pigeon (Columba livia).

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  • List of pigeon breeds

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The Danzig Highflyer is a breed of Fancy pigeon developed over many years of selective breeding. Danzig Highflyers along with other varieties of domesticated pigeons are all descendants from the Rock Pigeon (Columba livia).

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  • List of pigeon breeds

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The Domestic Show Flight is a breed of Fancy pigeon developed over many years of selective breeding. Domestic Show Flights along with other varieties of domesticated pigeons are all descendants from the Rock Pigeon (Columba livia).
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The Donek is a breed of Fancy pigeon developed over many years of selective breeding. The Donek along with other varieties of domesticated pigeons are all descendants from the Rock Pigeon (Columba livia).
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Dresden Trumpeter is a house pigeon race

Origin

Saxony, in the region of Dresden. Tenkasi

Overall Impression

Only slightly sturdier than the Field Pigeon, low carriage, a rather long than short effect required. White wing shield. Double-crested.
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The Egyptian Swift is a breed of fancy pigeon developed over many years of selective breeding. Egyptian Swifts along with other varieties of domesticated pigeons are all descendants from the Rock Pigeon (Columba livia).
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The Elster Purzler is a breed of Fancy pigeon developed over many years of selective breeding. The Elster Purzler along with other varieties of domesticated pigeons are all descendants from the Rock Pigeon (Columba livia).

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  • List of pigeon breeds

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The English Barb is a breed of Rock Pigeon (Columba livia).

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  • List of pigeon breeds

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The English Carrier is a breed of Rock Pigeon (Columba livia).

The largest of the flying pigeon breeds, the Old English Carrier was originally used for sending messages. Today, it is strictly a show pigeon, having been supplanted by the Racing Homer years ago.
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The English Fantail (commonly referred to as just "Fantail") is a highly developed breed of Fancy pigeon. The Fantail along with other varieties of domesticated pigeons are all descendants from the Rock Pigeon (Columba livia).
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The English Pouter is a breed of Rock Pigeon (Columba livia).

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The English Short Faced Tumbler is a breed of Fancy pigeon developed over many years of selective breeding. English Short Faced Tumblers along with other varieties of domesticated pigeons are all descendants from the Rock Pigeon (Columba livia).
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The Fantail is a popular breed of fancy pigeon. It is characterised by a fan-shaped tail composed of 30 to 40 feathers, abnormally more than most members of the pigeon family, which usually have 12 to 14 feathers. The breed is thought to have originated in India, China or Spain.
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The Felegyhazer Tumbler is a breed of Fancy pigeon developed over many years of selective breeding. Felegyhazer Tumblers along with other varieties of domesticated pigeons are all descendants from the Rock Pigeon (Columba livia).

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  • List of pigeon breeds

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Tippler is a breed of domestic pigeon bred to participate in endurance competitions. Flying results of up to 22 hours (non-stop) have been reported which makes it the most outstanding endurance-flying breed in recorded existence.
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