Fancy pigeons flaunt their feathers in this striking photo series

“Elegant pigeons” is a strange, beautiful diversity, and sometimes almost comedian photographer Luisa Maria Stagno.

Many evil Pigeons we all knowThose who are everywhere in cities around the world are the descendants of domesticated or freedom to freedom, grown from the wild pigeons at the same time (Columba Livia).

Today, the pigeons seologically grows humans to show a variety of shapes and colors, with 1100 races. Charles Darwin was also known to grow birdsand her About the origin of species It makes many citations to them.

Now, Stagno has the role of documenting its most unusual types, without fully favoritism. “I don’t have a ghasty pigeon, because I find it very nice,” he says. “I think each pigeon is unique.”

The names given to these breeds are as fantastic as it looks. From the main image, from above, a Frank-like trumpet, one of his wing-shaped paths, a Danish firewall, a Jacobino, gimple or a top culmuchin.