Fancy pigeon, seen by scientists in a single copy Bashny.Net

This kind of bird know as the spotted green pigeon ruffed and Liverpool it was named because the only known instance of a dove for the first time put on display to the public in 1851, the year the Museum of Liverpool. Edward Smith Stanley, thirteenth Earl of Derby, bought a bright feathered handsome to replenish its huge collection of birds, which were exhibited in the mansion Knowsley Hall, Merseyside County. The count left his collection to the Liverpool, and after his death she became a wonderful decoration of Liverpool world Museum.
The origin of species spotted green pigeons still remains a mystery: many people believe that these birds lived on an island in the Pacific ocean, where they have almost no natural enemies — evidenced by the little wings. Pigeons, most likely, lived mainly in the forests, as evidenced by a green color.





One of the assumptions, the birthplace of the Liverpool pigeon is the island of Haiti, where previously lived birds, which the locals called titi and described as little birds with white and green spotted feathers. Early ornithologists said that the Liverpool pigeon — a species related to the Nicobar pigeon, which is now know as the closest relative of the extinct Dodo bird, but the point in this discussion is not yet delivered.

Also, scientists have identified the tiny creature that is able to show what real pain is.


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