British Homing Pigeon Show, Blackpool, Lancashire, UK. 15th Jan 2016. The annual Homing Pigeon Show is being held at the Winter Gardens Exhibition Hall this weekend. A surprise for the visitors are these Fancy Pigeons including Fantails & the 'Best In Show' Norwich Cropper. These males puff out their chests as a show of their prowess. Credit: Cernan Elias/Alamy Live News
The Norwich Cropper is a breed of fancy pigeon developed over many years of selective breeding. The Norwich Cropper along with other varieties of domesticated pigeons are all descendants from the rock pigeon. The Norwich Cropper is thought to have been developed from a breed called the Oploper and is of Dutch origin.[
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