There are hundreds of pigeon breeds available throughout the world. Some of these breeds are domestic and some are feral or wild breeds.
However, the pigeons and doves are members of the bird family Columbidae. But the pigeons are tend to be larger in size than the doves.
Although some pigeons can be slightly smaller than the doves. Some pigeons are raised for show or exhibition purpose, some are raised for flying purpose, a few breeds are raised for ornamental purpose.
Some pigeon breeds are raised as pets, and some breeds are raised for general or utility purpose for the production of food. Most of the domestic breeds of pigeon are descendants from the rock pigeon, which is a feral species.
Common Pigeon Breeds
However, here we have listed the most common breeds of domestic pigeon (Columba livia domestica).
Full List of Pigeon Breeds
Here is the full list of all pigeon breeds, which are available throughout the world. Some of these pigeon breeds are highly available, some are rare and some are extinct.
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List of All Pigeon Breeds | |
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A | |
| Austrian White Tail | Asiatic Crack Tumbler |
| Austrian Magpie Cropper | Armenian Tumbler |
| Austrian Fisher | Agrovien White Tail |
| Australian Saddleback Tumbler | Archangel White |
| Australian Performing Tumbler | Archangel |
| Arad Tumbler | Arad Barred Highflyer |
| Arabian Trumpeter | Apatin Tumbler |
| Antwerp Semerie | Antwerp |
| Apatin Tumbler | Ancient Tumbler |
| Anatolian Owl | Amsterdam Beard Tumbler |
| American Strasser | American Show Racer |
| American Roller | American Modern Flight |
| American Giant Runt | American Giant Tumbler |
| American Giant Homer | American Flying Tumbler |
| American Flying Flight | American Flying Baldhead |
| American Bohemian Pouter | Altenburg Trumpeter |
| Alsace Cropper | Alpine Swift |
| Agaran | African Owl |
| Abu Abse-Dewlap | Aargau Peak |
| Aachen Lacquer Shield Owl | Aachen Cropper |
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B | |
| Backa Longbeak Tumbler | Bursa Tumbler |
| Bulgarian White Shield Roller | Bulgarian Shield Owl |
| Bukarest Black Hanging Flight Tumbler | Buga |
| Budapest Whiteside | Budapest Whiteflight Highflyer |
| Budapest Stork Marked Muffed Tumbler | Budapest Shortbeak |
| Budapest Muffed Tumbler | Budapest Kiebitz |
| Budapest Highflier (Potli) | Budapest Colored |
| Buda Grizzle Budapest Short Face Tumbler | Bucharest Show Tumbler |
| Bucharest Ciung Highflyer | Brunner Pouter |
| Brod Tumbler | Briver Blackhead |
| British Show Racer | Breslau Tumbler |
| Bremen Tumbler | Botosani Tumbler |
| Boston Blue Tumbler | Borino |
| Bokhara Tumbler | Bokhara Trumpeter |
| Bohemian Tumbler | Bohemian Trumpeter |
| Bohemian Tiger Swallow | Bohemian Steller Cropper |
| Bohemian | Bohemian Ice Cropper |
| Bohemian Fairy Swallow | Bohemian Cropper |
| Bohemian Bagdad | Blue Tumbler of Cluj |
| Blue Sovater | Blagodar Tumbler |
| Birmingham Roller | Bijeljina Roller |
| Bihac Roller | Bialostocka Krymka Tumbler |
| Bernhardin Magpie | Berne White Tail |
| Berne Tigerhead | Berne Ribbon Tail |
| Berne Peak Crested | Berne Lark |
| Berne Halfbeak | Berne Gugger |
| Bernburg Trumpeter | Berlin Short-Faced Tumbler |
| Berlin Muffed Tumbler | Berlin Medium-Faced Tumbler |
| Berlin Long-Faced Tumbler | Bergen Tumbler |
| Bergamasco | Benesov |
| Belgian Ringbeater | Belgian Tumbler |
| Belgian Highflyer | Belgian Homer de Lige |
| Beak-Crested Jacobin | Bavarian Highflyer |
| Bavarian Cropper | Basra Dewlap |
| Baska Tumbler | Barbet of Liege |
| Barbarisi Owl | Bango |
| Barb | Baku Boinije |
| Baja Tumbler | |
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C | |
| Czech Trumpeter | Czech Muffed Tumbler |
| Czech Ice Pouter | Czech Bagdad |
| Cumulet | Csepel Tumbler |
| Criador Lusitano | Crested Soultz |
| Crested Picard | Crescent |
| Craiova Chestnutbrown Tumbler | Cologne Tumbler |
| Colillano Cropper | Coburg Lark |
| Cluj-Napoca Tumbler | Cluj-Napoca Roller |
| Cluj-Napoca Blue | Clean Legged Spot Swallow |
| Clean Legged Fullhead Swallow | Chorrera |
| Chistopolian High-flying | Chinese Tumbler |
| Chinese Owl | Chinese Flying |
| Central Asiatic Roller | Cauchois |
| Catalonian Head and Neck Tumbler | Catalan Tumbler |
| Carrier | Carneau |
| Canario Cropper | Cambalhota Portugues |
| Cakal Roller | |
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D | |
| Dutch Highflyer | Dutch Helmet |
| Dutch Curled Cropper | Dutch Cropper |
| Dutch Beauty Homer | Dresden Trumpeter |
| Dragon | Donek |
| Domino Frill | Domestic Show Flight |
| Dolapci | Dobrudshan Roller |
| Denizli Bangosu | Debrecin Roller |
| Danzig Highflyer | Danish Tumbler |
| Danish Suabian | Danish Jacobin |
| Danish Cropper | Damascene |
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E | |
| Exhibition Homer | Exhibition Flying Tippler |
| Escampadissa Tumbler | Erlau Tumbler |
| English Trumpeter | English Show Tippler |
| English Show Homer | English Short-Faced Tumbler |
| English Pouter | English Owl |
| English Nun | English Magpie |
| English Long-Faced Tumbler | Englsih Fantail |
| English Exhibition Homer | English Carrier |
| English Barb | Elster Purzler |
| Elster Cropper | Elbing Whitehead Tumbler |
| Eisk Double Crested Tumbler | Eichbuhl |
| Egyptian Swift | Egyptian Frill |
| Echterding Color | East Prussian Tumbler |
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F | |
| Frillback | French Tumbler |
| French Scottobanca | French Pouter |
| French Owl | French Mondain |
| French Krymka Tumbler | French Highflyer |
| French Bagdad | Franconian Velvet Shield |
| Franconian Trumpeter | Franconian Toy Self |
| Franconian Magpie | Franconian Field |
| Franconian Bagdad | Fork-Tailed |
| Flying Tippler | Flying Saddle Homer |
| Flying Performing Roller | Flying Oriental Roller |
| Florentine | Flanders Smerle |
| Fish Eye Roller | Field Pigeon |
| Felegyhaza Tumbler | Fat Shan Blue |
| Fantail | |
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G | |
| Gumbinnen Whitehead Tumbler | Groninger Slenke |
| Griwuni Tumbler | Granadino Pouter |
| Gorguero Cropper | Gola |
| Goeteborg Tumbler | Gimpel |
| Gier | Giant Show Runt |
| Giant Mallorquina Runt | Giant Homer |
| Giant American Crest | Ghent Owl |
| Ghent Cropper | German Show Tippler |
| German Shield Owl | German Nun |
| German Modena | German Long-Faced Tumbler |
| German Forktail Trumpeter | German Double Crested Trumpeter |
| German Colortail Owl | German Beauty Homer |
| German Beak Crested Trumpeter | German Barb |
| Georgian Kuduli | Georgian White Tailed |
| Georgian Sizaghrani | Georgian Black Tailed |
| Georgian Yellow Tailed | Georgian Red Tailed |
| Genuine Homer | Gelderland Slenke |
| Gascogne | Garden Fantail |
| Galatz Roller | Gaditano Pouter |
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H | |
| Hyacinth | Huppe Picard |
| Hungarian Short-Beak | Hungarian Magpie-Tumbler |
| Hungarian Highflyer | Hungarian Giant Pouter |
| Hungarian Giant | Hungarian Fantail |
| Hungarian Egri Tumbler | Hungarian Darkstorked Highflyer |
| Hungarian Cropper | Hungarian Buga |
| Hungarian Beauty Homer | Hungarian |
| Horseman Pouter | Homing |
| Holle Croper | Hollander |
| Hodmezovasarhelyer Show Crest Tumbler | Hindi Fantail |
| Hessian Pouter | Helmet Pigeons |
| Haskow Colorhead Tumbler | Harzburg Trumpeter |
| Hannover Tumbler | Hana Pouter |
| Hamedan Highflyer Saxon | Hamburg Tumbler |
| Hamburg Sticken | Hamburg Schimmel |
| Hamburg Helmet | Hague Highflyer |
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I | |
| Italian Sottobanca | Italian Owl |
| Irish Flying Tumbler | Iran Roller |
| Iranian Highflier | C.I.A Pigeon |
| Indian Pearl Highflier | Indian Mondain |
| Indian Gola | Indian Fantasy |
| Indian Fantail | Ice |
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J | |
| Jiennense Cropper | Jewel Mondain |
| Jerezano Pouter | Jassy Tumbler |
| Jacobin | |
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K | |
| Krasnodar Tumbler | Krakow Magpie |
| Kosice Tumbler | Kosice Roller |
| Koros Tumbler | Konstanza Tumbler |
| Kmorn Tumbler | Koenigsberg Reinaugen Tumbler |
| Koenigsberg Moorhead | Koenigsberg Colored Head Tumbler |
| Kiskunfelegyhaza Tumbler | King |
| Kiev Tumbler | Kelebek |
| Kecskemet Tumbler | Kazan Tumbler |
| Katal | Kassel Tumbler |
| Karakand Fantail | Kaluga Tumbler |
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L | |
| Luttich Owl | Luster |
| Lusatian Tumbler | Lugoj Roller |
| Lucerne White Tail | Lucerne Tigerhead |
| Lucerne Shield | Lucerne Self |
| Lucerne Gold Collar | Lucerne Elmer |
| Lucerne Cropper Collar | Low Silesian Muffed Tumbler |
| Lower Bavarian Cropper | Lotan |
| Lome Tumbler | Limerick Tumbler |
| Lille Tumbler | Lille Pouter |
| Leuven Pouter | Lenardo |
| Lebanon Pigeon | Laudino Sevillano Cropper |
| Lahore | Lacene |
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M | |
| Megcer | Modhumoti |
| Muntenia Whitetail Tumbler | Munsterland Field |
| Mulhouse | Muffed Helmet |
| Moulter | Moscow Black Magpied |
| Moscovite Tumbler | Moscat |
| Moroncelo Cropper | Morrillero Alicantino Pouter |
| Morillero Cropper | Moravian White Head |
| Moravian Strasser | Moravian Morak Cropper |
| Moravian Magpie Cropper | Moravian Bagdad |
| Mookee | Montauban |
| Monor Tumbler | Modern Spanish Thief Pouter |
| Modern Show Flight | Modena |
| Mittelhause | Miniature American Crested |
| Micholaiyvski Shield Tumbler | Memel Highflyer |
| Masurian Tumbler | Martham |
| Markish Magpie Tumbler | Mariolinha |
| Mariola | Mardin |
| Marchenero Pouter | Manotte |
| Maltese | Mallorca Giant Pigeon |
| Mako Highflyer | Majorcan Esbart Roller |
| Majorcan Bort Runt | Magpie |
| Macedonian Turbit | |
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N | |
| Nis White-Tail Highflyer | Nuremberg Swallow |
| Nuremberg Lark | Nun |
| Novisad Short-Faced Tumbler | Norwich Cropper |
| Norwegian Tumbler | Nord Caucasian Tumbler |
| Nish Highflyer | New York Danish Flying Tumbler |
| Naked Neck Tumbler | |
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O | |
| Ostrowiec Wattle Pigeon | Ostrrava Bagdad |
| Oriental Turbit | Orientale Eastslowakian Roller |
| Oriental Roller | Oriental Frill |
| Orbetean Romanian Rust-Colored Highflyer | Old Vienna Highflyer |
| Old Style English Flying Saddle Tumbler | Old Oriental Owl |
| Old Holland Pouter | Old German Turbit |
| Old German Owl | Old German Nun |
| Old German Moorhead | Old German Magpie Tumbler |
| Old German Cropper | Old Fashioned Oriental Frill |
| Old Dutch Turbit | Old Dutch Tumbler |
| Old Dutch Capuchine | Old Austrian Tumbler |
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P | |
| Ptarmigan | Prague Medium Face Tumbler |
| Prague Short-Faced Tumbler | Prachen Kanik |
| Poster | Posen Colored Head Tumbler |
| Portuguese Tumbler | Portuguese Breeder |
| Pomeranian Show Crest Highflyer | Pomeranian Cropper |
| Polish Wilna Eagle | Polish Wattle Pigeon |
| Polish Short-Beaked Magpie Tumbler | Polish Shortbeak Tumbler |
| Polish Shield Highflyer | Polish Owl |
| Polish Orlik | Polish Masciuch Tumbler |
| Polish Lynx | Polish Long-Face Tumbler |
| Polish Krymka Tumbler | Polish Kronen Tumbler |
| Polish Highflyer | Polish Helmet |
| Polish Griwuni Tumbler | Polish Gansel Tumbler |
| Polish Eagle | Polish Crest Tumbler |
| Polish Beauty Homer | Polish Barb |
| Polish Bagdad | Pinta Tumbler |
| Pigmy Pouter | Pigmy Mariola |
| Piestanau Giant Pigeon | Piacentino |
| Persian Roller | Persian Highflyer |
| Parlor Tumbler | Parlor Roller |
| Pappatacci | Pakistani Highflyer |
| Pazardchin Roller | |
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Q | |
| Quet Roller | |
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R | |
| Rzhev Startail Tumbler | Russian Tumbler |
| Russian Martini | Russian Akkermann Tumbler |
| Russe Tumbler | Russe Tschibolli |
| Russe Blue Tumbler | Runt |
| Royal Snow Tumbler | Roubaisien |
| Rostov Tumbler | Rostock Tumbler |
| Roshan Chirag | Romanian Satu-Mare Tumbler |
| Romanian White Tail Tumbler | Tomanian Tshoong Tumbler |
| Romanian Orbetean Tumbler | Romanian Silvery Tumbler |
| Romanian Naked-Neck Tumbler | Romanian Moriscar Roller |
| Romanian Magpie Tumbler | Romanian Gagiu |
| Romanian Coffee-Colored Tumbler | Romanian Cherry-Colored Highflyer |
| Romanian Blue Barred Whitetail | Romanian Blind Tumbler |
| Romanian Black-Cherry Tumbler | Romanian Beard |
| Romanian Barred Highflyer | Romanian Argintiu Tumbler |
| Romagnol | Roller Pigeons |
| Riga Tumbler | Ribbon Tail Tumbler |
| Rhine Ringbeater | Reversewing Pouter |
| Reversewing Color Pigeon | Revellois |
| Renaisien | Reinaugen Tumbler |
| Regensburg Tumbler | Refilador Tumbler |
| Razgard Roller | Rawson Short Face Tumbler |
| Rakovnik Roller | Rafeno Cropper |
| Racing Homer | |
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S | |
| Szolnok Tumbler | Szolnok Bagdad |
| Szekesfehervar Tumbler | Szegedin Highflyer |
| Syrian Turbiteen | Syrian Swift |
| Syrian Sabuni Tumbler | Syrian Halabi |
| Syrian Fantail | Syrian Dewlap |
| Syrian Curled Dewlap | Syrian Coop Tumbler |
| Syrian Bagdad | Swiss Self |
| Swiss Pouter | Swiss Mondain |
| Swiss Crescent | Swing Pouter |
| Swedish Tumbler | Swedish Owl |
| Swallow | Sverdlovsk Blue-Gray-Mottle-Headed |
| Strasser | Stralsund Highflyer |
| Stork Pigeon de Lodz | Steiger Cropper |
| Stettin Tumbler | Steller Cropper |
| Steinheim Bagdad | Starwitzer Cropper |
| Starling | Stargard Shaker |
| Stapar Tumbler | Srebrniak |
| Speelderke | Spangeled Magpie Purzler of Satu-Mare |
| Spanish Thief Pouter | Spanish Strawberry Eye |
| Spanish Pigeon | Spanish Owl Pouter |
| Spanish Owl | Spanish Nun |
| Spanish Naked Neck | Spanish Monjin |
| Spanish Mondain | Spanish Little Friar Tumbler |
| Spanish Gabacho Runt | Spanish Frillback Bagadette |
| Spanish Flamenca Runt | Spanish Flamenca |
| Spanish Barb | Spanish Bagdad |
| Spaniard | South German White Tail |
| South German Tigerhead | South German Spot |
| South German Shield | South German Moorhead |
| South German Monk | South German Charcoal Lark |
| South German Breast | South German Blasse |
| South Batschka Tumbler | Sottobanca |
| Sombor | Sofia Tumbler |
| Smyter | Slowenien Whitehead |
| Slovakian Highflyer | Cropper |
| Sisak Roller | Single Crested Priest |
| Silky Fantail | Silesian Whitehead |
| Silesian Moorhead | Silesian Cropper |
| Silesian Colorhead | Siberian Tumbler |
| Show Racing Homer | Showpen Homer |
| Show Homer | Show Antwerp |
| Short-Faced Gansel Tumbler | Short-Beaked Armavir Tumbler |
| Shiraz Tumbler | Shakhsharli |
| Shack Kee | Serbian Highflyer |
| Seraphim | Seldschuk |
| Schumen Tumbler | Schoeneberg Barred Tumbler |
| Schmolln Trumpeter | Schmalkalden Moorhead |
| Schalaster Pouter | Scandaroon |
| Sxon Wing | Saxon White Tail |
| Saxon Swallow | Saxon Stork |
| Saxon Spot | Saxon Shield |
| Saxon Priest | Saxon Monk |
| Saxon Field | Saxon Fairy Swallow |
| Saxon Cropper | Saxon Crescent Pigeon |
| Saxon Breast | Satu-Mare Tumbler |
| Sarajewo Roller | Saint Louis Arch Crested Fantail |
| Saint Gallen Wing | Saint |
| Saddle Homer | Saar |
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T | |
| Turbiteen | Turbit |
| Tung Koon Paak | Tunesian Owl |
| Tumbler | Tula Ribbon Tail Tumbler |
| Triganino Modena | Trenton |
| Travnik Highflyer | Transylvanian Tumbler |
| Transylvanian Double Crested Tumbler | Transylvanian Back Crested Tumbler |
| Tokur | Timisoara Tumbler |
| Tippler | Tiger Swallow |
| Thuringian Wing Pigeon | Thuringian White Tail |
| Thuringian Whitehead | Thuringian White Bib |
| Thuringian Swallow | Thuringian Stork |
| Thuringian Spot | Thuringian Shield |
| Thuringian Self | Thuringian Pouter |
| Thuringian Monk | Thuringian Mauser |
| Thuringian Goldbeetle | Thuringian Cropper |
| Thuringian Crescent | Thuringian Color Pigeons |
| Thuringian Breast | Thurgau White Tail |
| Thurgau Shield | Thurgau Peak Crested |
| Thurgau Monk | Thurgau Elmer |
| Thurgau Crescent | Thai Laugher |
| Thai Fantail | Taxan Pioneer |
| Targovista Red Highflyer | Targovist Tumbler |
| Taqlaji | Takla Tumbler |
| Taganrog Tumbler | |
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U | |
| Usbekian Tumbler | Ural Striped Maned Pigeon |
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V | |
| Vrschatschaka Tumbler | Voorburg Shield Cropper |
| Volga Tumbler | Vogtland Whitehead Trumpeter |
| Wiennese Whiteside Tumbler | Viennese Short-Faced Tumbler |
| Viennese Long-Faced Tumbler | Viennese Gansel Tumbler |
| Vienna Roserlscheck | Vienna Muffed Tumbler |
| Vienna Highflyer | Vienna |
| Velono Pouter | Varna Tumbler |
| Valencian Peter Runt | Valencian Magany Homer |
| Valencian Homer | Valencian Giant Tenant |
| Valencian Figurita | Valencian Cropper |
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W | |
| White Racing Doves | Wuttemberg Moorhead |
| Wolverhampton Magpie Tumbler | Wolverhampton Badge Tumbler |
| Wiggetal Color Tail | West of England Tumbler |
| Warsaw Butterfly Tumbler | Waldviertel Cropper |
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Z | |
| Zurich White Tail | Zitterhall |
| Zagreb Tumbler |
