.jpg) Brown English Pouter | |
| Conservation status | Common |
|---|---|
| Country of origin | England |
| Classification | |
| US Breed Group | Fancy |
| EE Breed Group | Pouter and Cropper |
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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 Under Domestication (1868).