All over the world there are almost 723 types of pigeons are exist. some Species are very common and available almost everywhere but some of is very illusive to find out. Every types of pigeons are different than other, different color, different size and different shape.
The good news is, if you able to make a good environment for a pigeon couple they will be very happy to live with a as a lovely pet bird. The most available types of pigeons breed are raised domestically as a purpose of sport, hobby and food.
Those types of pigeons are raised by domestically for food, they are not very expensive and they look very common. you can easily buy from your local market. Even some places pigeon meat is much cheaper than other chicken or duck meat. Pigeon meat is very tasty and healthy. Domestically raised pigeons can be a variety of colors, but are commonly blue or white. Some places pigeon used as wedding and event “doves,”
Sports Pigeons
For hobby and sports purpose raised pigeons are beautiful and charming in some cases they are very expensive too. Specially the racing pigeons are most popular all over the world. Racing pigeons are brawny and strong flyers with powerful homing instincts. They are trained very well to return their lofts after a racing event.
Fancy pigeons
Fancy pigeons are specialized breeds, Some hobbyists make show their fancy pigeon competitions that are similar to dog or other pet animal shows. Usually pigeon lover’s keeps their pigeons as personal pets. There are many kinds of fancy pigeons including breeds like Pouters, Tumblers, Owls etc.
Feral Rock Pigeons
In the most countries and big cities you’ll find different types of feral Rock Pigeons. they are mostly the common blue variety of pigeons. Feral pigeons are well adapted to cities, suburbs and rural areas. In the countryside, they often perch in barns or around bridges and natural cliff areas. Sometimes feral pigeons cross-breed with domestic pigeons, that’s why the color and plumage variations down through generations.
Band-tailed Pigeons
Band-tailed Pigeons are one of the most common wild pigeon. They are native to North America and the Pacific Coast. these pigeons have a long, gray banded tail and also a white band and iridescent patch at the nape of the neck. Band-tailed Pigeons are 14 to 18 inches long with a bright yellow beak and feet.
The Table Below Showcases All Types of Pigeons Breed
| Aachen Cropper | German Colourtail Owl | Rawson Short Face Tumbler |
| Aachen Lacquer Shield Owl | German Double Crested Trumpeter | Razgrad Roller |
| Aargau Peak Crested | German Forktail Trumpeter | Refilador Tumbler |
| Abu Abse-Dewlap | German Long-Faced Tumbler | Regensburg Tumbler |
| African Owl | German Modena | Reinaugen Tumbler |
| Agaran Pigeon | German Nun | Renaisien |
| Alpine Swift | German Shield Owl | Revellois |
| Alsace Cropper | German Show Tippler →Tippler | Reversewing Colour Pigeon |
| Altenburg Trumpeter | Ghent Cropper | Reversewing Pouter |
| American Bohemian Pouter | Ghent Owl | Rhine Ringbeater |
| American Flying Baldhead | Giant American Crest | Ribbon Tail Tumbler |
| American Flying Flight | Giant Homer | Riga Tumbler |
| American Flying Tumbler | Giant Mallorquina Runt | Roller Pigeons, a breed group |
| American Giant Homer | Giant Show Runt | Romagnol (pigeon) |
| American Giant Tumbler | Gier | Romanian Argintiu Tumbler |
| American Giant Runt | Gimpel | Romanian Barred Highflyer |
| American Modern Flight | Goeteborg Tumbler | Romanian Beard |
| American Roller | Gola | Romanian Black-Cherry Tumbler |
| American Show Racer | Gorguero Cropper | Romanian Blind Tumbler |
| American Strasser | Granadino Pouter | Romanian Blue Barred Whitetail |
| Amsterdam Beard Tumbler | Griwuni Tumbler | Romanian cherry-coloured Highflyer |
| Anatolian Owl | Groninger Slenke | Romanian Coffee-Colored Tumbler |
| Anatolian Ringbeater | Gumbinnen Whitehead Tumbler | Romanian Gagiu |
| Ancient Tumbler | Romanian Magpie Tumbler | |
| Apatin Tumbler | Hague Highflyer | Romanian Moriscar Roller |
| Antwerp Pigeon | Hamburg Helmet | Romanian Naked-Neck Tumbler |
| Antwerp Smerle | Hamburg Schimmel | Romanian Silvery Tumbler |
| Apatin Tumbler | Hamburg Sticken | Romanian Orbetean Tumbler |
| Arabian Trumpeter | Hamburg Tumbler | Romanian Tshoong Tumbler |
| Arad Barred Highflyer | Hamedan Highflyer Saxon | Romanian White Tail Tumbler |
| Arad Tumbler | Hana Pouter | Romanian Satu-Mare Tumbler |
| Archangel | Hannover Tumbler | Roshan Chirag |
| Archangel White Trjasuni | Harzburg Trumpeter | Rostock Tumbler |
| Argovien White Tail | Haskow Colourhead Tumbler | Rostov Tumbler |
| Armenian Tumbler | Helmet Pigeons, a group of pigeon breeds | Roubaisien |
| Asiatic Crack Tumbler | Hessian Pouter | Royal Snow Tumbler |
| Australian Performing Tumbler | Hindi Fantail | Runt |
| Australian Saddleback Tumbler | Hódmezövásárhelyer Show Crest Tumbler | Russe Blue Tumbler |
| Austrian Fis(c)her Pigeon | Hollander (pigeon) | Russe Tschilbolli |
| Austrian Magpie Cropper | Holle Cropper | Russe Tumbler |
| Austrian White Tail | Homing Pigeon | Russian Akkermann Tumbler |
| Horseman Pouter | Russian Martini | |
| British Show Racer | Hungarian | Russian Tumbler |
| Baja Tumbler | Hungarian Beauty Homer | Rzhev Startail Tumbler |
| Baku Boinije | Hungarian Buga Pigeon | |
| Barb (pigeon) | Hungarian Cropper | Szegediner Highflier |
| Barbarisi | Hungarian darkstorked Highflyer | Saar Pigeon |
| Barbet of Liège | Hungarian Egri Tumbler | Saddle Homer |
| Baska Tumbler | Hungarian Fantail | Saint (pigeon) |
| Basra Dewlap | Hungarian Giant Pigeon | Saint Gallen Wing Pigeon |
| Bavarian Cropper | Hungarian Giant Pouter | Saint Louis Arch Crested Fantail |
| Bavarian Highflyer | Hungarian Highflyer | Sarajewo Roller |
| Beak-Crested Jacobin | Hungarian Magpie-Tumbler | Satu-Mare Tumbler |
| Beauty Homer de Lige | Hungarian Short-Beak | Saxon Breast |
| Belgian Beauty Homer | Huppé Picard | Saxon Crescent Pigeon |
| Belgian Highflyer | Hyacinth | Saxon Cropper |
| Belgian Tumbler | Saxon Fairy Swallow | |
| Belgian Ringbeater | Ice Pigeon | Saxon Field Pigeon |
| Benesov Pigeon | Indian Fantail | Saxon Monk |
| Bergamasco pigeon | Indian Fantasy (pigeon) | Saxon Priest |
| Bergen Tumbler | Indian Gola | Saxon Shield |
| Berlin Long-Faced Tumbler | Indian Mondain | Saxon Spot |
| Berlin Medium-Faced Tumbler | Indian Pearl Highflier | Saxon Stork Pigeon |
| Berlin Muffed Tumbler | Iranian Highflier | Saxon Swallow |
| Berlin Short-Faced Tumbler | Iran Roller | Saxon White Tail |
| Bernburg Trumpeter | Irish Flying Tumbler[4] | Saxon Wing Pigeon |
| Berne Gugger | Italian Owl | Scandaroon |
| Berne Halfbeak | Italian Sottobanca | Schalaster Pouter |
| Berne Lark | Schmalkalden Moorhead | |
| Berne Peak Crested | Jacobin | Schmolln Trumpeter |
| Berne Ribbon Tail | Jassy Tumbler | Schoeneberg Barred Tumbler |
| Berne Tigerhead | Jerezano Pouter | Schumen Tumbler |
| Berne White Tail | Jewel Mondain | Seldschuk Pigeon |
| Bernhardin Magpie | Jiennense Cropper | Seraphim Pigeon |
| Bialostocka Krymka Tumbler | Serbian Highflyer | |
| Bihac Roller | Kaluga Tumbler | Shack Kee |
| Bijeljina Roller | Karakand Fantail | Shakhsharli |
| Birmingham Roller | Kassel Tumbler | Shiraz Tumbler |
| Blagodar Tumbler | Katal | Short-Beaked Armavir Tumbler |
| Blue Sovater | Kazan Tumbler | Short-Faced Gansel Tumbler |
| Blue Tumbler of Cluj | Kecskemét Tumbler | Show Antwerp |
| Bohemian Bagdad | Kelebek | Show Homer |
| Bohemian Cropper | Kiev Tumbler | Showpen Homer |
| Bohemian Fairy Swallow | King | Show Racing Homer |
| Bohemian Ice Cropper | Kiskunfelegyhaza Tumbler | Siberian Tumbler |
| Bohemian Pigeon | Koenigsberg Coloured Head Tumbler | Silesian Colourhead |
| Bohemian Steller Cropper | Koenigsberg Moorhead | Silesian Cropper |
| Bohemian Tiger Swallow clean legged | Koenigsberg Reinaugen Tumbler | Silesian Moorhead |
| Bohemian Trumpeter | Komorn Tumbler | Silesian Whithead |
| Bohemian Tumbler | Konstanza Tumbler | Silky Fantail |
| Bokhara Trumpeter | Koros Tumbler | Single Crested Priest |
| Bokhara Tumbler | Kosice Roller | Sisak Roller |
| Borino | Kosice Tumbler | Slovakian Cropper |
| Boston Blue Tumbler | Kraków Magpie | Slovakian Highflyer |
| Botoșani Tumbler | Krasnodar Tumbler | Slowenien Whitehead |
| Bremen Tumbler | Smyter | |
| Breslau Tumbler | Lucerne Gold Collar | Sofia Tumbler |
| British Show Racer | Lacene | Sombor |
| Briver Blackhead | Lahore | Sottobanca |
| Brod Tumbler | Laudino Sevillano Cropper | Sottobanca, French type |
| Brunner Pouter | Lebanon (pigeon) | South Batschka Tumbler |
| Bucharest Ciung Highflier | Lenardo | South German Blasse |
| Bucharest Show Tumbler | Leuven Pouter | South German Breast |
| Buda Grizzle Budapest Short Face Tumbler | Lille Pouter | South German Charcoal Lark |
| Budapest Coloured | Lille Tumbler | South German Monk |
| Budapest Highflier | Limerick Tumbler | South German Moorhead |
| Budapest Kiebitz | Lome Tumbler | South German Shield |
| Budapest Muffed Tumbler | Lotan (pigeon) | South German Spot |
| Budapest Shortbeak | Lower Bavarian Cropper | South German Tigerhead |
| Budapest stork marked muffed Tumbler | Low Silesian Muffed Tumbler | South German White Tail |
| Budapest Whiteflight Highflyer | Lucerne Copper Collar | Spaniard (pigeon) |
| Budapest Whiteside | Lucerne Elmer | Spanish Bagdad |
| Buga Pigeon | Lucerne Gold Collar | Spanish Barb |
| Bukarest black Hanging Flight Tumbler | Lucerne Self | Spanish Flamenca |
| Bulgarian Shield Owl | Lucerne Shield | Spanish Flamenca Runt |
| Bulgarian White Shield Roller | Lucerne Tigerhead | Spanish Frillback Bagadette |
| Bursa Tumbler | Lucerne White Tail | Spanish Gabacho Runt |
| Bácka Longbeak Tumbler | Lugoj Roller | Spanish Little Friar Tumbler |
| Lusatian Tumbler | Spanish Mondain | |
| Canario Cropper | Luster Pigeon | Spanish Monjin |
| Carneau | Luttich Owl | Spanish Naked Neck Pigeon |
| Carrier | Spanish Nun | |
| Catalan Tumbler | Modena | Spanish Owl |
| Catalonian Head and Neck Tumbler | Macedonian Turbit | Spanish Owl Pouter |
| Catalonian Laced Bordench Mondain | Magpie →English Magpie | Spanish Pigeon |
| Central Asiatic Roller | Majorcan Bort Runt | Spanish Strawberry Eye |
| Chinese Tumbler | Majorcan Esbart Roller | Spanish Thief Pouter |
| Cakal Roller | Makó Highflyer | Spangeled Magpie Purzler of Satu-Mare |
| Cambalhota Português | Mallorca Giant Pigeon | Speelderke |
| Cauchois | Maltese (pigeon) | Srebrniak (Perlovy) |
| Chinese Flying Pigeon | Manotte | Stapar Tumbler |
| Chinese Owl | Marchenero Pouter | Stargard Shaker |
| Chinese Tumbler | Mariola | Starling |
| Chistopolian High-flying Pigeon | Mariolinha | Starwitzer Cropper |
| Chorrera | Markish Magpie Tumbler | Steinheim Bagdad |
| Clean Legged Fullhead Swallow | Martham (pigeon) | Steller Cropper |
| Clean Legged Spot Swallow | Masurian Tumbler | Stettin Tumbler |
| Cluj-Napoca Blue | Memel Highflyer | Steiger Cropper |
| Cluj-Napoca Roller | Micholaiyvski Shield Tumbler | Stork Pigeon de Lodz |
| Cluj-Napoca Tumbler | Miniature American Crested | Stralsund Highflyer |
| Coburg Lark | Mittelhause Pigeon | Strasser |
| Colillano Cropper | Modena | Sverdlovsk blue-gray mottle-headed pigeon |
| Cologne Tumbler | Modern Show Flight | Swallow (pigeon) |
| Craiova chestnutbrown Tumbler | Modern Spanish Thief Pouter | Swedish Owl |
| Crescent | Monor Tumbler | Swedish Tumbler |
| Crested Picard | Montauban | Swing Pouter |
| Crested Soultz | Mookee | Swiss Crescent |
| Criador Lusitano | Moravian Bagdad | Swiss Mondain |
| Csepel Tumbler | Moravian Magpie Cropper | Swiss Pouter |
| Cumulet | Moravian Morak Cropper | Swiss Self |
| Czech Bagdad | Moravian Strasser | Syrian Bagdad |
| Czech Ice Pouter | Moravian White Head | Syrian Coop Tumbler |
| Czech Muffed Tumbler | Morillero Cropper | Syrian Curled Dewlap |
| Czech Trumpeter | Morrillero Alicantino Pouter | Syrian Dewlap |
| Moroncelo Cropper | Syrian Fantail | |
| Dragoon | Moscat | Syrian Halabi |
| Damascene | Moscovite Tumbler | Syrian Sabuni Tumbler |
| Danish Copper | Moscow Black Magpied | Syrian Swift |
| Danish Jacobin | Moulter | Syrian Turbiteen |
| Danish Suabian | Muffed Helmet | Szegedin Highflyer |
| Danish Tumbler | Mulhouse Pigeon | Szekesfehervar Tumbler |
| Danzig Highflyer | Munsterland Field Pigeon | Szolnok Bagdad |
| Debrecin Roller | Muntenia Whitetail Tumbler | Szolnok Tumbler |
| Denizli Bangosu | Modhumoti (pigeon) | |
| Dobrudshan Roller | Megcer (pigeon) | Taganrog Tumbler |
| Dolapci | Takla Tumbler | |
| Domestic Show Flight | Naked Neck Tumbler | Taqlaji |
| Domino Frill | New York Danish Flying Tumbler | Targovist Tumbler |
| Donek | Nish Highflyer | Targovista red Highflyer |
| Dragoon | Nord Caucasian Tumbler | Texan Pioneer |
| Dresden Trumpeter | Norwegian Tumbler | Thai Fantail |
| Dutch Beauty Homer | Norwich Cropper | Thai Laugher |
| Dutch Cropper | Novisad Short-Faced Tumbler | Thurgau Crescent |
| Dutch Curled Cropper | Nun | Thurgau Elmer |
| Dutch Helmet | Nuremberg Lark | Thurgau Monk |
| Dutch Highflyer | Nuremberg Swallow | Thurgau Peak Crested |
| Nis’ White-Tail Highflyer | Thurgau Shield | |
| English Trumpeter | Thurgau White Tail | |
| East Prussian Tumbler | Old Austrian Tumbler | Thuringian Breast |
| Echterding Colour Pigeon | Old Dutch Capuchine | Thuringian Colour Pigeons |
| Egyptian Frill | Old Dutch Tumbler | Thuringian Crescent Pigeon |
| Egyptian Swift | Old Dutch Turbit | Thuringian Cropper |
| Egyptian Tumbler | Old Fashioned Oriental Frill | Thuringian Goldbeetle |
| Eichbühl (pigeon) | Old German Cropper | Thuringian Mauser Pigeon |
| Eisk Double Crested Tumbler | Old German Magpie Tumbler | Thuringian Monk |
| Elbing Whitehead Tumbler | Old German Moorhead | Thuringian Pouter |
| Elster Cropper | Old German Nun | Thuringian Self |
| Elster Purzler | Old German Owl | Thuringian Shield Pigeon |
| English Barb | Old German Turbit | Thuringian Spot |
| English Carrier | Old Holland Pouter | Thuringian Stork Pigeon |
| English Exhibition Homer | Old Oriental Owl | Thuringian Swallow |
| English Fantail | Old Style English Flying Saddle Tumbler | Thuringian White Bib |
| English Long-Faced Tumbler | Old Vienna Highflyer | Thuringian Whitehead |
| English Magpie | Orbetean Romanian rust-coloured Highflyer | Thuringian White Tail |
| English Nun | Oriental Frill | Thuringian Wing Pigeon |
| English Owl | Oriental Roller | Tiger Swallow |
| English Pouter | Orientale Eastslowakian Roller | Tippler |
| English Short-Faced Tumbler | Oriental Turbit | Timisoara Tumbler |
| English Show Homer | Ostrava Bagdad | Tokur |
| English Show Tippler | Ostrowiec Wattle Pigeon | Transylvanian Back Crested Tumbler |
| English Trumpeter | Transylvanian Double Crested Tumbler | |
| Erlau Tumbler | Pazardchin Roller | Transylvanian Tumbler |
| Escampadissa Tumbler | Pakistani Highflyer | Travnik Highflyer |
| Exhibition Flying Tippler | Pappatacci | Trenton |
| Exhibition Homer | Parlor Roller | Triganino Modena |
| Parlor Tumbler Pigeons | Tula Ribbon Tail Tumbler | |
| Fantail | Persian Highflyer | Tunesian Owl |
| Fat Shan Blue | Persian Roller | Tung Koon Paak |
| Felégyhaza Tumbler | Piacentino | Turbit |
| Field Pigeon | Piestanau Giant Pigeon | Turbiteen |
| Field Pigeon, clean legged | Pigmy Mariola | |
| Fish Eye Roller | Pigmy Pouter | Ural striped maned pigeon |
| Flanders Smerle | Pinta Tumbler | Usbekian Tumbler |
| Florentine | Polish Bagdad | |
| Flying Oriental Roller | Polish Barb | Vienna Highflier |
| Flying Performing Roller | Polish Beauty Homer | Valencian Cropper, Dutch type |
| Flying Saddle Homer | Polish Crest Tumbler | Valencian Figurita |
| Flying Tippler | Polish Eagle | Valencian Giant Tenant Pigeon |
| Fork-Tailed | Polish Gansel Tumbler | Valencian Homer |
| Franconian Bagdad | Polish Griwuni Tumbler | Valencian Magany Homer |
| Franconian Field Pigeon | Polish Helmet | Valencian Peter Runt |
| Franconian Magpie | Polish Highflyer | Varna Tumbler |
| Franconian Toy Self | Polish Kronen Tumbler | Veleño Pouter |
| Franconian Trumpeter | Polish Krymka Tumbler | Vienna (pigeon) |
| Franconian Velvet Shield | Polish Long-Faced Tumbler | Vienna Highflyer |
| French Bagdad | Polish Lynx | Vienna Muffed Tumbler |
| French Highflyer | Polish Masciuch Tumbler | Vienna Röserlscheck |
| French Krymka Tumbler | Polish Orlik | Viennese Gansel Tumbler |
| French Mondain | Polish Owl | Viennese Long-Faced Tumbler |
| French Owl | Polish Shield Highflyer | Viennese Short-Faced Tumbler |
| French Pouter | Polish Shortbeak Tumbler | Viennese Whiteside Tumbler |
| French Sottobanca | Polish Short-Beaked Magpie Tumbler | Vogtland Whitehead Trumpeter |
| French Tumbler | Polish Wattle Pigeon | Volga Tumbler |
| Frillback | Polish Wilna Eagle | Voorburg Shield Cropper |
| Pomeranian Cropper | Vrschatschka Tumbler | |
| Galaţi Roller Pigeon-Cock | Pomeranian Show Crest Highflyer | |
| Gaditano Pouter | Portuguese Breeder | Waldviertel Cropper |
| Galatz Roller | Portuguese Tumbler | Warsaw Butterfly Tumbler |
| Garden Fantail | Posen Coloured Head Tumbler | West of England Tumbler |
| Gascogne Pigeon | Poster | Wiggetal Colour Tail |
| Gelderland Slenke | Prachen Kanik | Wolverhampton Badge Tumbler |
| Genuine Homer | Prague Short-Faced Tumbler | Wolverhampton Magpie Tumbler |
| Georgian yellow tailed | Prague Medium Face Tumbler | Wurttemberg Moorhead |
| Georgian black tailed | Ptarmigan | White Racing Doves |
| Georgian sizaghrani | ||
| Georgian white tailed | Quet Roller | Zagreb Tumbler |
| Georgian Kuduli [1] | Zitterhall | |
| German Barb | Racing Homer | Zurich White Tail |
| German Beak Crested Trumpeter | Rafeno Cropper | |
| German Beauty Homer | Rakovnik Roller |
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