Danish Tumbler

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The Danish Tumbler is a breed of fancy pigeon. Danish Tumblers, along with other varieties of domesticated pigeons, are all descendants from the rock pigeon (Columba livia).

The standard of the Danish Tumbler: Figure: Elegant, slender and rather strong with highly carried, full breast; The neck: comparatively long. The throat well undercut; The uppermost part of the neck slender and thin, evenly growing in thickness down towards breast and back; The back: suitably broad-shouldered, in parade position sloping (ab. 50° with horizontal) down towards the narrow, not too long tail; The wings shall be fit closely to the body, rest upon the tail and almost reach the tip of the tail without crossing each other; The tail shall consist of 12 feathers, be narrow and tight fitting and must not reach the floor in parade position; The legs shall be red, comparatively long, not coarse, not too close, slightly bent in the heel. The lower legs shall be comparatively long; The plumage shall be thick and firm; the wing feathers strong;

The form of the head seen from the side, shall shape a regular evenly curved line, which without breaking or contraction at the root of the beak passes into the strongly set, slightly downwards turned, cone shaped beak; The front of the head must not be too short; the back of the head shall be shortly rounded; The head in front view, shall be wedge-shaped, without edges and contractions and evenly curved to the sides.

The beak: the upper mandible as well as the lower mandible shall be strongly set, evenly falling off in thickness from root to tip; Too strongly pronounced "hook" (tip of the mandible) not desirable. The line through the corner of the mouth shall have direction towards the center of the eye; The color of the beak shall be bright, lightly rose pink and without "grain". For blacks and blues, however, a not too strongly pronounced "grain" on the upper mandible is allowed; The beak warts shall be prettily reddish-white and not coarse.

Seen from the side, the eyes must be lie in the middle of the head, be large, bright and vivacious with white (milky white) iris, absolutely free from red vein lets, very little circular, black pupil; narrow, lively and red eye rims.

The color:

The markings:

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