Groups of pigeons

Domestic pigeons are different in color, body shape, pattern and plumage structure, flying abilities. Conditionally for practical use, all domestic pigeons are divided into four main groups:

1. Sports (postal)
2. Decorative
3. Flight - Racing
4. Meat

When assessing standards at international European pigeon shows, the German classification of 1978 is usually applied, namely:

1. Shaped
2. Warty
3. Chicken
4. Dutysh
5. Colored
6. Drummers
7. Structural
8. Owls
9. Turmans and High Race

In 1982 , the leading pigeon breeders of the Moscow club, taking into account the main features inherent in a number of breeds of pigeons of domestic origin, divided them into 7 groups:

1. Clean
2. Short-billed Turmans
3. Race
4. High flying
5. Slaughter
6. Drummers
7. Stately

1. Winged
2. Kachuns
3. Single color
4. Motley
5. Shaking
6. Color-sided
7. Color chest
8. Color-tailed

In Russia, the famous ornithologist Professor S. Petofi divides the breeds into 12 groups:

1. Simple (sisari)
2. Field or color
3. Giants
4. Chicken
5. Drummers
6. Curly
7. Jacobins
8. Peacocks
9. Seagulls
10. Dutysh
11. Warty
12. Flight and somersaults

The pigeon breeders of the Czech Republic and Slovakia have their own conventional classification, which provides for the division of all breeds of domestic pigeons into 8 groups:

1. Useful
2. Large
3. Chicken
4. Datysh (large, medium, small)
5. Decorative (colored, seagulls, drummers, structural)
6. Warty
7. Flying (Turmans - Short-billed, Middle-billed, Long-billed)
8. Sports (postal)