Roller and Purzler
Purzler and roller together form a group of flying pigeons . It includes porpoise pigeons that flip over backwards when flying. Purzler only show individual, easily countable rotations around the transverse axis, which are repeated differently often. With roller pigeons, the individual somersaults follow one another so quickly that they can hardly be counted.
Flight behavior
Depending on the breed, selection and training, tumbler and roller pigeons circle differently high and persistently in the air. There, as style fliers and aerial acrobats, they perform single (1 to 5) repeated backward flips at intervals, the so-called tumbling , or entire series of flips (5 to 20, difficult to count transverse axis rotations). Both in different repetitions depending on the breed and training. In addition, tumbler and roller breeds can show other flight figures.
Racial representatives
The ancestors of these acrobats are Kurdistan , Smyrna and Oriental rollers .
Relatively few pigeons belong to the tumblers. They include Quet Purzler , Taschkenter, Rakonitzer Tümmler and some gossip dolphins as prototypes . In addition, Elsterpurzler (especially Lausitzer Purzler ), East Prussian thrower and West English bottlenose dolphin .
Roller pigeons are represented by numerous breeds . The best performing include the Birmingham Roller , Galatzer Roller , Oriental and Smyrnaer. Others are Asiatic, Bucovina, Bulgarian, Bursa, Cacal, Cesaria, Debreciner, Escampadissa, Fisheye, Jassyer, Caucasian, Crimean, Kurdistan, Mallorca, Mardin, Mülakat, Nokolayev, Odessa, Persian, Quet, Safkan, Syrian Sabunina, Temesvarer, Tbilisi , Turkish and Zagreb scooters .
Bodenpurzler
Bodenpurzler form another group of pigeons. Through targeted selection, their tumbling in flight was modified so that they only show backflips near the ground. With the exception of this characteristic, they behave like any other domestic pigeon .
Ground tumblers are divided into single tumblers , double tumblers and multiple tumblers . Single tumblers only show one somersault on the ground, double tumblers usually two consecutive ones. Multiple tumblers, on the other hand, show merging backwards rolls in a series, which are performed in one action, like a rolling ball. Top performances over 30 meters are possible.
Web links
- Video: Flight of the roller pigeons . Institute for Scientific Film (IWF) 1986, made available by the Technical Information Library (TIB), doi : 10.3203 / IWF / E-2818 .
Literature and evidence
- Erich Müller (Ed.): Tumbler pigeons, high-flying pigeons, play pigeons (= everything about pedigree pigeons . Volume 6 ). Oertel and Spörer, Reutlingen 2002, ISBN 3-88627-606-6 , Artists in the air - the scooter races, p. 210-212 .
- Curt Vogel , Marianne Vogel, Wilfried Detering , Maik Löffler : pigeons . A manual for breeders and owners of domestic pigeons, wild pigeons, carrier pigeons and other flying pigeons […] Weltbild, Augsburg 1998, ISBN 3-86047-736-6 , p. 67, 76-80 .
- ↑ a b c d Curt Vogel, u. a .: pigeons . A handbook for breeders and keepers [...] 1998, 2.7.3.3. Purzler, Roller, S. 76-78 .
- ↑ a b c d Curt Vogel, u. a .: pigeons . A handbook for breeders and keepers [...] 1998, Table 2/11 groups of flying pigeons, their characteristic properties and prototypes, p. 67 .
- ↑ Curt Vogel, u. a .: pigeons . A handbook for breeders and keepers [...] 1998, 2.7.3.4. Bodenpurzler, S. 78-80 .