The Magpie Pigeon is a kind of fancy pigeon which has been developed over many more years of selective breeding. Rock Pigeon or Columba livia are the ancestor or fore father of Magpie Pigeon along with the other varieties of domesticated and fancy pigeons. About 1990 coming via Germany from Denmark the original Magpie was one of the old tumbler varieties. The Magpies were originally part of the Tumbler breeds although today in the United Kingdom as it is purely kept as an exhibition kind. The Magpie Pigeon is a shallow bodied and slim pigeon that carries itself very vertically. Magpies do breed well and they are reliable feeders for their young. Their beak is very long and colored fresh. The finest Magpies are often appears in solid Blacks but they do found in other colors also including dun, brown, silver, yellow and blue. The Magpie Pigeon was often called as the "Queen of the Pigeons" in England.
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