Field fugitive

Feldflüchter or common field pigeon (Gottlob Neumeister, 1876)

Field pigeon (Bungartz, 1885)

The German Feldflüchter is a breed of domestic pigeon that descends directly from the first tamed pigeons. She was kept on the estates between the Oder and Elbe and flew in swarms with a few hundred individuals to the fields in the area and took care of herself. Her name, which actually means field pilot , comes from the fields .

Unlike the field pigeon, the field flight is not like today's city pigeons . Her head was quite characteristic and reminded of wild pigeons . The beak was thin. The plumage was "gray-blue, the neck with feathers, breast and abdomen a little lighter. The wings had two dark bands. ”In addition to the gray-blue ones, there were also blue-hammered and pure black animals. Other colors were not considered real.

Real field refugees were still to be found in Saxony until 1886/90, then they became rarer and are probably no longer available today.

In historical treatises field pilots are also called field pigeons , blue field pigeons or common country pigeons .

Evidence and further information

Commons : Feldflieger - Collection of images, videos and audio files

^ Johann Paul Kolbeck: Treatise on pigeon breeding . A gift for all pigeon lovers. Daisenberg, Regensburg 1821, the field pilot, p. 7 ( reader.digitale-sammlungen.de [accessed on January 4, 2016] digitized version). or the field pilot at Wikisource
↑ ^a ^b ^c Joachim Schütte, Günter Stach, Josef Wolters: Handbook of the pigeon races . Josef Wolters, Bottrop 1994, ISBN 3-9801504-4-5 , field pigeons, p. 62 .
^ Jean Bungartz : Taubenracen . Illustrated manual for judging the races of our domestic pigeons. Contains the previously known color, race and various foreign luxury pigeons. E. Twietmeyer, Leipzig, p. 3 ( babel.hathitrust.org [accessed January 4, 2016] around 1885, digitized).
↑ Gottlob Neumeister: The whole of pigeon breeding . Ed .: Gustav Prütz . 3rd edition, revised in the text in keeping with the times. BF Voigt, Weimar 1876, The blue field or the ordinary country pigeon, p. 13 f ., doi : 10.5962 / bhl.title.50691 .

[Kolbeck-1] Johann Paul Kolbeck: Treatise on pigeon breeding . A gift for all pigeon lovers. Daisenberg, Regensburg 1821, the field pilot, p. 7 ( reader.digitale-sammlungen.de [accessed on January 4, 2016] digitized version). or the field pilot at Wikisource

[Schütte-2] Joachim Schütte, Günter Stach, Josef Wolters: Handbook of the pigeon races . Josef Wolters, Bottrop 1994, ISBN 3-9801504-4-5 , field pigeons, p. 62 .

[Bungartz-3] Jean Bungartz : Taubenracen . Illustrated manual for judging the races of our domestic pigeons. Contains the previously known color, race and various foreign luxury pigeons. E. Twietmeyer, Leipzig, p. 3 ( babel.hathitrust.org [accessed January 4, 2016] around 1885, digitized).

[Neumeister-4] Gottlob Neumeister: The whole of pigeon breeding . Ed .: Gustav Prütz . 3rd edition, revised in the text in keeping with the times. BF Voigt, Weimar 1876, The blue field or the ordinary country pigeon, p. 13 f ., doi : 10.5962 / bhl.title.50691 .