Line of Thinking on the Numeral of Fancy Pigeons

 Fancy pigeons are huge in number in the world. This is very tough to come into a concrete solution on their specific numbers. From the wild rock-pigeon, all fancy pigeons have been evolved. Taxonomically, all fancy pigeons are breed but on the basis of the information of many books, pigeons could be classified into the following terms (race, strain, variety, type). The quantitative method ensured the actual number of the fancy pigeons of the world and qualitative survey showed their differentiating characteristics. Many old and new books, online supplements, articles, reports, and oral communication helped a lot for understanding the history and ensured 116 fancy pigeons in the world based on their physique, exceptional colour, voice, and behaviour. In this number of pigeons, races were 8, strain 1, breeds 57, varieties 45, and types 5 (Table 2; Figure 2). In addition, mentionable groups were consisted of eight― performing, structured, meat, coloured, feathered, trumpet, cropper, and wattled (Table 1). The highest members (44 pigeons) were in performing group (flying tumbler, show tumbler, racing, and flying) (Table 1; Figure 1). In fact, pigeon keepers did not bother about the scientific classification of their pigeons.