Pigeon color
Blue
In coats and feathers the fanciers' blue: a dilution of black that looks slate grey, as in blue dogs, Russian Blue cats, blue rabbits and blue pigeons. In eyes and eggshells a true blue.
60 Pigeon breeds list Blue. It is in a club standard for 56 breeds.
Breeds whose standards accept Blue
| Breed | NPA | BDRG | EE | RPRA |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| African Owl | Standard (“blue”) | Standard (“Andalusierfarbig; Blau mit Binden; Blau-gehämmert; Andalusierfarbig-gescheckt; Blau-gescheckt mit Binden; Blau-gehämmert-gescheckt”) | No ruling | No ruling |
| Brunner Pouter | Standard (“Selfs in white, red, yellow, black, dun, andalusian, brown, khaki, lavender; blue, silver, ash red and yellow, brown and khaki barred or checkered”) | Standard (“Andalusierfarbig; Blau mit Binden; Blau-gehämmert; Blau-schimmel mit Binden; Blau-getigert mit Binden; Blau-gestorcht; Blau mit weißen Binden”) | No ruling | No ruling |
| English Fantail | Standard (“Blue; Powdered Blue; Powdered Silver; Andalusian; Grizzle; Checker; Saddle; Tailmark; Bodymark; Mismarked; Splash”) | Standard (“Andalusierfarbig; Blau ohne Binden; Blau mit Binden; Blau-gehämmert; Blau-milky mit Binden; Blau-schimmel mit Binden; Blau-getigert ohne Binden”) | No ruling | No ruling |
| English FantailBlue | Standard (“Blue”) | Standard (“Blau mit Binden”) | No ruling | No ruling |
| English FantailPowdered | Standard (“Powdered Blue; Powdered Silver”) | No ruling | No ruling | No ruling |
| English FantailAndalusian | Standard (“Andalusian”) | Standard (“Andalusierfarbig”) | No ruling | No ruling |
| English FantailSplash | Standard (“Splash”) | No ruling | No ruling | No ruling |
| English FantailBlue Barless | No ruling | Standard (“Blau ohne Binden”) | No ruling | No ruling |
| English FantailBlue Check | No ruling | Standard (“Blau-gehämmert”) | No ruling | No ruling |
| English FantailMilky Blue Bar | No ruling | Standard (“Blau-milky mit Binden”) | No ruling | No ruling |
| English FantailBar Grizzle | No ruling | Standard (“Blau-schimmel mit Binden”) | No ruling | No ruling |
| English FantailBlue Barless Mottled | No ruling | Standard (“Blau-getigert ohne Binden”) | No ruling | No ruling |
| English FantailBlue Bar Mottled | No ruling | Standard (“Blau-getigert mit Binden”) | No ruling | No ruling |
| English FantailBlue Barless Pied | No ruling | Standard (“Blau-gescheckt ohne Binden”) | No ruling | No ruling |
| English FantailBlue Bar Pied | No ruling | Standard (“Blau-gescheckt mit Binden; Weißschwänze Blau mit Binden”) | No ruling | No ruling |
| English FantailBlue Barless Shield | No ruling | Standard (“Blau-schildig ohne Binden”) | No ruling | No ruling |
| English FantailBlue Bar Shield | No ruling | Standard (“Blau-schildig mit Binden”) | No ruling | No ruling |
| English FantailBlue Check Shield | No ruling | Standard (“Blau-gehämmert-schildig”) | No ruling | No ruling |
| English FantailBlue Tailmark | No ruling | Standard (“Blau-schwänzig”) | No ruling | No ruling |
| English FantailAndalusian White Tail | No ruling | Standard (“Weißschwänze Andalusierfarbig”) | No ruling | No ruling |
| English FantailBlue Check White Tail | No ruling | Standard (“Weißschwänze Blau-gehämmert”) | No ruling | No ruling |
| English Pouter | Standard (“Blue; blue check; black check”) | Standard (“Dunkel-geherzt; Blau-geherzt mit Binden”) | No ruling | No ruling |
| English Tumbler | Standard (“BALDHEADS; Ash Red, Blue, Brown and their dilutes in Bar, Checker and Barless”) | Standard (“Andalusierfarbig; Blau mit Binden; Blau ohne Binden; Blau-gehämmert; Blau-schimmel mit Binden; Weißköpfe Blau mit Binden; Weißköpfe Blau-gehämmert”) | No ruling | No ruling |
| Frillback | Standard (“SELF: White, Black, Recessive Red and Yellow.; GRIZZLE: Red, Yellow, Blue, Silver.; SADDLE”) | Standard (“Blau-schimmel; Blau-schildig mit Binden; Blau-schildig mit Binden mit Rundhaube”) | Standard (“Schwarz; Rezessiv Rot; Rezessiv Gelb; Blau-schimmel; Rot-schimmel; Gelb-schimmel”) | No ruling |
| FrillbackColoured | Standard (“SELF: White, Black, Recessive Red and Yellow.; GRIZZLE: Red, Yellow, Blue, Silver.; SADDLE”) | No ruling | Standard (“Schwarz; Rezessiv Rot; Rezessiv Gelb; Blau-schimmel; Rot-schimmel; Gelb-schimmel”) | No ruling |
| Giant Homer | Standard (“BLUE BAR; BLUE & BLACK CHECKS; CLASSIC GRIZZLE; TIGER GRIZZLE; PIED/SPLASH”) | Standard (“Blau mit Binden; Blau ohne Binden; Blau-gehämmert; Blau-dunkelgehämmert; Dunkel; Hellandalusierfarbig; Andalusierfarbig; Blau-gescheckt mit Binden”) | No ruling | No ruling |
| Indian Fantail | Standard (“Blue in: Barless, barred, check, T-pattern and spread in intense and dilute; Grizzle; Bodymark; Saddle; Tailmark; Ribbintail; Splash”) | Standard (“Blau ohne Binden; Blau mit Binden; Blau-gehämmert; Blau-milky mit Binden; Weißschwänze Blau ohne Binden; Blau-gescheckt ohne Binden”) | No ruling | No ruling |
| Jacobin | Standard (“Blue”) | Standard (“Blau mit Binden; Blau ohne Binden”) | No ruling | No ruling |
| JacobinBlue | Standard (“Blue”) | Standard (“Blau mit Binden”) | No ruling | No ruling |
| JacobinBlue Barless | No ruling | Standard (“Blau ohne Binden”) | No ruling | No ruling |
| King | Standard (“BLUE KING; Andalusian King”) | Standard (“Blau ohne Binden; Blau mit Binden; Blau-gehämmert; Blau-dunkelgehämmert; Blau-dunkel; Andalusierfarbig; Blau-getigert mit Binden”) | No ruling | No ruling |
| KingBlue | Standard (“BLUE KING”) | Standard (“Blau mit Binden”) | No ruling | No ruling |
| KingBar Grizzle | No ruling | Standard (“Blau-schimmel mit Binden”) | No ruling | No ruling |
| KingAndalusian | Standard (“Andalusian King”) | Standard (“Andalusierfarbig”) | No ruling | No ruling |
| KingBlue Barless | No ruling | Standard (“Blau ohne Binden”) | No ruling | No ruling |
| KingBlue Check | No ruling | Standard (“Blau-gehämmert”) | No ruling | No ruling |
| KingBlue Dark Check | No ruling | Standard (“Blau-dunkelgehämmert; Blau-dunkel”) | No ruling | No ruling |
| KingBlue Bar Mottled | No ruling | Standard (“Blau-getigert mit Binden”) | No ruling | No ruling |
| KingBlue Bar Pied | No ruling | Standard (“Blau-gescheckt mit Binden”) | No ruling | No ruling |
| Modena | Standard (“The color descriptions apply to both Schietti and Gazzi, with the exception of the white on the Gazzi body.; BLUE; BRONZE-TRI; ANDALUSIAN”) | Standard (“Schietti Blau mit bronze Binden; Schietti Blau-bronzegehämmert; Schietti Dunkel-bronzeschildig-gehämmert”) | No ruling | No ruling |
| ModenaGazzi | Standard (“The color descriptions apply to both Schietti and Gazzi, with the exception of the white on the Gazzi body.”) | No ruling | No ruling | No ruling |
| ModenaSchietti | Standard (“The color descriptions apply to both Schietti and Gazzi, with the exception of the white on the Gazzi body.”) | No ruling | No ruling | No ruling |
| Mondain | Standard (“Blue - Bar or Check.”) | Standard (“Blau mit Binden; Blau ohne Binden; Blau-gehämmert; Blau-schimmel mit Binden”) | No ruling | No ruling |
| Nun | Standard (“Blue”) | Standard (“Blau”) | No ruling | No ruling |
| NunBlue | Standard (“Blue”) | Standard (“Blau”) | No ruling | No ruling |
| Old German Owl | Standard (“Patterns in Bar, Check & T-Pattern. Colors include blue, Silver, Brown, Khaki, Ash Red, and Ash Yellow.; Grizzle ... shown as a separate class.”) | Standard (“Blau-schildig ohne Binden; Blau-schildig mit Binden; Blau-schildig mit weißen Binden; Hellblau-schildig mit weißen Binden; Blau-gehämmert-schildig”) | Standard (“Schwarz-schwänzig; Blau-schwänzig; Rot-schwänzig; Gelb-schwänzig”) | No ruling |
| Oriental Frill | Standard (“BLUE LACED; BLUE BAR; SATINETTE BLUE LACED; BLUETTES; DOMINOES; TURBITEENS”) | Standard (“Blondinetten Blau mit weißen Binden; Blondinetten Blau-geschuppt; Turbiteenmövchen; Dominomövchen”) | No ruling | No ruling |
| Oriental FrillTurbiteen | No ruling | Standard (“Turbiteenmövchen”) | No ruling | No ruling |
| Oriental FrillDomino | No ruling | Standard (“Dominomövchen”) | No ruling | No ruling |
| Oriental Roller | Standard (“Andalusian”) | Standard (“Andalusierfarbig; Blau mit Binden; Blau-gehämmert; Blau-dunkelgehämmert; Blau-schimmel mit Binden; Weißschläge Andalusierfarbig”) | Standard (“Andalusierfarbig; Blau mit Binden; Blau-gehämmert; Blau-dunkelgehämmert; Blau-schimmel mit Binden”) | No ruling |
| Pygmy Pouter | Standard (“Blue Bar”) | Standard (“Dunkel-geherzt; Blau-geherzt mit Binden”) | No ruling | No ruling |
| Racing Homer | Standard (“Blue”) | No ruling | No ruling | Alternate (“blue; blue chequer; dark chequer; blue pied”) |
| Runt | Standard (“BLUE BAR; BLUE GRIZZLE; CHECK”) | Standard (“Blau mit Binden; Blau-gehämmert; Blau-gescheckt mit Binden”) | No ruling | No ruling |
| Show Racer | Standard (“Blue Bar; Blue Check; Dark Check; Black Check; Grizzle; Indigo/Andulusian; Splash or Pied; Mismark”) | Standard (“Blau ohne Binden; Blau mit Binden; Blau-gehämmert; Blau-dunkelgehämmert; Blau-dunkel; Andalusierfarbig; Blau-gescheckt ohne Binden”) | No ruling | No ruling |
| Tippler | Standard (“Tipplers are permitted to be any color, pattern or marking”) | No ruling | No ruling | No ruling |
| Trumpeter | Standard (“Andalusian; Barred Blue”) | No ruling | No ruling | No ruling |
| Parlor Roller | Alternate (“AOC's”) | No ruling | No ruling | No ruling |
Breeds where Blue is disqualified or not accepted
| Breed |
|---|
| Birmingham Roller |
| Oriental FrillBlondinette |
| Oriental FrillSatinette |
Color changes
How Blue can appear or change over an animal's life.
Redchanges toBlue
Plumage · With age