Golden Elbe

Golden elves or South German moon pigeons are colored pigeons that are considered extinct in Germany.

They differ from the Thurgau Elmer by their round hood , a plumage that arches around the back of the head. The basic color of these smooth-footed pigeons is very light, almost ivory in color. They have golden yellow to reddish crescent-shaped markings on the front neck, as well as wing and tail bands in the same color. Your eyes are dark or orange-red.

According to Schütte, the pigeons are still bred in the former Czechoslovakia . These pigeons completely resemble the round-capped southern German colored pigeons in their body shape. Under the name Mesickovy holub (= moon pigeons ) there are also them without wing and tail band.

Since the descriptions of the golden elves differ from one another in the literature, Wilhelm Bauer questions the status of the golden elves as an independent breed and suspects them to be a variety or cross between the moon dove and Thurgau elmers. The authors Bayer and Fischer were also unclear about their status as South German color pigeons .

Literature and evidence

↑ ^a ^b Wilhelm Bauer: The South German color pigeons . Races, history, colors, distribution; with an appendix about the black-ground starting pigeons. Oertel and Spörer, Reutlingen 1996, ISBN 3-88627-175-7 , Goldelbe, p. 102-103 .
↑ ^a ^b Joachim Schütte, Günter Stach, Josef Wolters: Handbook of the pigeon races . Josef Wolters, Bottrop 1994, ISBN 3-9801504-4-5 , Süddeutsche Mondtauben or Goldelbe, p. 254 .

[Bauer-1] Wilhelm Bauer: The South German color pigeons . Races, history, colors, distribution; with an appendix about the black-ground starting pigeons. Oertel and Spörer, Reutlingen 1996, ISBN 3-88627-175-7 , Goldelbe, p. 102-103 .

[Schütte-2] Joachim Schütte, Günter Stach, Josef Wolters: Handbook of the pigeon races . Josef Wolters, Bottrop 1994, ISBN 3-9801504-4-5 , Süddeutsche Mondtauben or Goldelbe, p. 254 .