Major Breed Families of Fancy Pigeon
This grouping system is adapted from The Australian Fancy Pigeons book of standards. Where consideration was given to the new UK standards book which followed the German and European grouping. This version differs slightly from that of the European grouping here, but until a worldwide accepted grouping can be worked out the following are arbitrary and solely for organizing breed articles.
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