a black and white bird standing on its hind legs with it's head turned to the side
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Pouter Pigeon

The English Pouter is a breed of fancy pigeon developed over many years of selective breeding. English Pouters along with other varieties of domesticated pigeons are all descendants from the rock pigeon. A breed with an enlarged crop their distinctiveness was described by Charles Darwin in The Variation of Animals and Plants via Domestication saying that the breed was "perhaps the most distinct of all domesticated pigeons". This bird which is hiding its head behind its "puffed" out breast…

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