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A VERY SPECIAL THANK YOU GOES OUT TO:

bulletOriginally offered to Mike Cobb by Mr. Hans Schipper of the Netherlands back in the late 1980's
bulletData collected and reported originally to the Southern California Color Pigeon Club in their memberships club bulletin published by Sec./Treas. Mike Cobb in that same time period
bulletHere it is being reported again for the NATIONAL COLOR PIGEON CLUB 2/05/08
   

The NCPC has agreed to support the following list of Color Pigeons

"click on a color type in blue below and it will take you to sketches of each group"

To see a "live bird" photo glossary, please go to each Section link to your left

 

(1)    The Sequence Of Breeds According To The German Standard - as offered by: Hans Schipper of Holland on Feb. 27, 2008

Sequence of breeds according to the German standard:  (83 breeds)

MISCELLANEOUS COLOR PIGEONS
  1. Danish Suabian Pigeon #60
  2. Prachen Kanik Pigeon #61
  3. Hyacinth Pigeon #62 (Dutch breed, recognized in France, Switzerland and Holland )
  4. Munsterland Field Pigeon #63
  5. Bohemian Pigeon #64
  6. Archangel Pigeon #65
  7. Clean leg Ice Pigeon #81
  8. Starlings #82
  9. Field Pigeon (Clean leg)
  10. Lacene pigeon   (English breed, recognized in GB only)

The Ice pigeon is not a specific Saxon breed! The origin of the muffed varieties is Silesia for the orange eyed (black bar and chequered), Saxony for the dark eyed (barless, white bar and spangled). The clean legged come from South Germany (chequered) and Saxony (other colors)

All these varieties are specified in one standard; the special club wants to have them lined up together: clean legged first, than the muffed.

The same case with Starlings. Black varieties are original South German pigeons, the blues come from Thuringia. These are also specified in one standard .

The origin of Clean legged Field pigeons is Thuringia and Saxony.

SOUTH GERMAN COLOR PIGEONS
  1. South German Spot Pigeon #29
  2. South German Breast Pigeon #30
  3. South German Moorhead Pigeon #31
  4. South German Monk Pigeon  #32
  5. South German Whitetail Pigeon #33
  6. South German Clean legged Monk Pigeon #34
  7. South German Starling Pigeon #35
  8. South German Blasse (White Plated) Pigeon #36
  9. South German Tiger Moorhead Pigeon #37
  10. South German Charcoal Lark Pigeon #38
  11. South German Shield Pigeon #39
  12. Echterdinger Color Pigeon #80
  13. South German Monk Pigeon (Muffed)
  14. Wurttemberg Moorhead #79

South German Monks clean legged and muffed have their own standard

FRANCONIAN & NURNBERG COLOR PIGEONS
  1. Franconian Velvet Shield Pigeon #52
  2. Nuremberg Lark Pigeon #53
  3. Franconian Field Pigeon #54
  4. Bernhardiner Schecke Pigeon #55
  5. Nuremberg Swallow Pigeon #56
  6. Frankconian Herzschecke Pigeon #57

  7. Franconian Magpie pigeon

    Bernhardine Magpie pigeon

THURINGIAN COLOR PIGEONS
  1. Thuringian Field Pigeon #15
  2. Thuringian Whitetail Pigeon #16
  3. Thuringian Spot Pigeon #17
  4. Thuringian Self Color Pigeon #18
  5. Thuringian Wing Pigeon #19
  6. Thuringian Moulter Pigeon #20
  7. Thuringian Crescent Pigeon #21
  8. Thuringian Whitehead Pigeon #22
  9. Thuringian Swallow Pigeon #23
  10. Thuringian Stork Pigeon #24
  11. Thuringian White Bib Pigeon #25
  12. Thuringian Shield Pigeon #26
  13. Thuringian Breast Pigeon #27
  14. Thuringian Goldkafer #28
  15. Thuringian Monk Pigeon
  16. Thuringian Gold Beetle Pigeon
  17. Thuringian Mauser Pigeon (Whiteplate)

SAXON COLOR PIGEONS

  1. Saxon Field Pigeon #1
  2. Saxon Breast Pigeon #2
  3. Old German Moorhead Pigeon #3
  4. Saxon Whitetail Pigeon #4
  5. Saxon Priest Pigeon #5
  6. Saxon Spot Pigeon #6
  7. Saxon Stork Pigeon #7
  8. Saxon Shield Pigeon #8
  9. Saxon Wing Pigeon #9
  10. Saxon Cresent Pigeon #10
  11. Bohemian Tiger Wing Pigeon (tiger variety of the Saxon Wing pigeon)
  12. Saxon Swallow Pigeon #12
  13. Saxon Monk Pigeon #13
  14. Saxon Reserve Wing Color Pigeon #14

SILESIAN PIGEONS

  1. Silesian Color Pigeon
  2. Silesian Moorhead Pigeon
    3.

SWISS COLOR PIGEONS
  1. Wiggertaler Color Tail Pigeon #40
  2. Lucerne Shield Pigeon #41
  3. Thurgau Shield Pigeon #42
  4. Berne Lark Pigeon #43
  5. Thurgau Elmer Pigeon #44
  6. Berne Rieselhead Pigeon #45  (Tiger head)?
  7. Thurgau Monk Pigeon #46
  8. Berne Whitetail Pigeon #47
  9. Thurgau Whitetail Pigeon #48
  10. Zurick Whitetail Pigeon #49
  11. Aargau Whitetail Pigeon #50
  12. Lucerne Elmer Pigeon #51
  13. Berne Halfbeak Pigeon
  14. Eichbuhl Pigeon
  15. Poster Pigeon
  16. Self Swiss Pigeon
  17. Berne Kuckoo Pigeon (Gugger)
  18. Berne Mirrortail Pigeon
  19. Thurgau Cresent Pigeon
  20. Thurgau Flourcolor Pigeon
  21. Lucerne Self Colored Pigeon
  22. Lucerne Copper Color Pigeon
  23. Lucerne Gold Color Pigeon
  24. Lucerne Tiger Head Pigeon
  25. Lucerne Whitetail Pigeon
  26. Saint Gallen Wing Pigeon

All the above mentioned breeds exist and are shown on special shows.

See catalogue of Leipzig 2006.

The Berne Halfbeak, Eichbühl and Poster are added to the group of Swiss Color pigeons for practical reasons. Breeders want to have them judged by an experienced judge and succeeded in transference from the group of utility pigeons to the Swiss color pigeons, at shows forming a closed collection. Problems occurred German shows.

The European Standard Committee, ESC, objected principally, because those breeds show other characteristics not common for color pigeons. The EE-section overruled the standpoint of the ESC.The European Judging system - as offered by: Hans Schipper of Holland on Feb. 27, 2008

 

. ONCE A COLOR PIGEON

NOW A Member of the Structure Pigeon

 

  1. Schmalkaldener Moorhead Pigeon #66
  2. Frillback

ONCE A COLOR PIGEON

NOW A Member of the Head Pigeon

1. Nurnberg Bagdad (Scandaroon) Pigeon #58