Picture a pigeon: gray body, iridescent neck feathers, probably pecking away at trash on a city sidewalk. But there are actually more than 350 different breeds of pigeon, and many of them look ...

— -- Some 7,844 pigeons gathered this weekend at the 93rd annual Grand National Pigeon Show, and not one was the average street bird. Welcome to the world of fancy pigeons, a niche hobby held ...

Charles Darwin bred pigeons, and used them to learn more about the inheritance of different characteristics. For pigeons, beak size is one of those characteristics. There are 350 pigeon breeds or more ...

But the pigeons we raise and exhibit are usually different from those in color, size and shape. There’s so many different breeds with their own features and beautiful in their own way.

To clarify the family tree of pigeon breeds, Mike Shapiro, a biologist who studies the genetics of diversity at the University of Utah, undertook the first ever genetic classification of domestic ...

The rock pigeon is a single species (Columba livia) with 350 different breeds with different sizes, shapes, colors, color patterns, beaks, bone structure, vocalizations and arrangements of ...

The rock pigeon is a single species (Columba livia) with 350 different breeds with different sizes, shapes, colors, color patterns, beaks, bone structure, vocalizations and arrangements of ...

Man’s “Bird Brained” Idea Creates New Pigeon Breed. By Robin Goldsworthy . Dec. 1, 2005 12 AM PT . Share via Close extra sharing options. ... his offspring were a different story.

Two rock pigeon breeds, the old Dutch capuchine (left) and komorner tumbler, are not closely related, ... color patterns and bone structure, among its 350 different breeds. ...