Tippler

The English Flugtippler is a pigeon breed that was bred from the English porpoises. She comes as all domestic pigeons from the wild rock pigeon (Columba livia ), which was domesticated in the Persian- Indian region. The breed was bred in 1840 in England by crosses between local porpoises with French Cumulet porpoises.

Flight Type

From the original flight Tipplers various types developed for air sports: the Sheffield Tippler, Manchester Tippler, Macclesfield Tippler, Leicester Tippler and the Lincoln Crazies. Although these types can not be distinguished by their body shape today, say breeders differences at the airport to make.

Flugtippler are perennial racing pigeons. The international flight duration record was set on May 21, 1995 a stitch Doves of Irish Harry Shannon. His Alttippler flew 22 hours and 5 minutes. The record for Jungtippler is 20 hours and 29 minutes. Unlike pigeons Flugtippler not previously been brought to another location. Flugtippler fly within sight of the native pigeon strain.

Races are organized by racing pigeons bodies and associations. In Germany these are, inter alia, the German Flugtippler Union eV (DFU ) and the Tippler Club Germany (TCD ).

Show type

As is customary in English or American porpoises, there are certain Flugtippler two types that are consistently recognized as a separate breed in these countries. The flight model has already been described above. The scene type was recorded as an English show - Flugtippler with the number 919 in the list of EE- pigeons of the European studbook. Standard Decisive is the UK.