Pigeons are found in are large variety of shapes and sizes and they are over two hundred kinds of pigeons all over the world. The come in different colours as well and that is one way through which they can be differentiated. Some of the examples for pigeons are anterwerp, archangel, barb, carneau, carrier etc. Anterwerp are short and medium sized in....

Pigeons belong to the same family as doves and are sometimes described as one and in some cases the name is interchangeable for both. They belong to a family called the Columbidae that is within the order of Columbiformes. This is the family that includes near three hundred possible kinds of birds and hence is one of the biggest one can find. The name dove and pigeon is used according to size variation.