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Now a flock of pampered fantail pigeons flutter in and out of the tower at their leisure.

It is primarily home to small animals such as mice, guinea pigs, chickens, and fantail pigeons, and snakes.

"Be a fantail pigeon."

Zitterhals have curved swan-like necks that tremble or shake in a way similar to Fantail pigeons.

It was from these two lucky birds that the species of Indian fantail pigeons spread beyond Indian shores and reached the farthest corners of the world.

Fantail Pigeon (Columba livia domestica)

To introduce spontaneity to a work - what she calls the "unruly element" - she once set 20 fantail pigeons free on stage to see how they would affect the performance.

The Fantail Club UK, established in 1889, promotes the knowledge and enjoyment of the exhibition Fantail Pigeon in the United Kingdom.

Some children had rabbits, some had guinea-pigs, a few had fantail pigeons that lived in a big pigeon-house on a pole, and one or two had canaries or goldfish.

The journey over seas lasted many days and to ensure the reptiles didn't go hungry, Indian fantail pigeons, found exclusively in India until then, were given to the pythons as snake feed.

The keepers at the San Diego Zoo who had obviously never seen Indian fantail pigeons before were so taken by their distinct looks that they decided to keep, and later breed and develop them.

He wrote to Asa Gray and used the example of fantail pigeons to argue against Gray's belief "that variation has been led along certain beneficial lines", with the implication of Creationism rather than Natural Selection.

Intent on their own mysterious tasks, four dancers whirled about the stage in enigmatic forays and into equally mysterious patterns, augmented by a battalion of 32 dawdling fantail pigeons released in small groups onto the stage.

I saw two fantail pigeons walking up the outside staircase toward the fourth floor, leaving tiny prints along the steps, and recall the bellboy saying something about them belonging to the housekeeper and Mr. Babcock being "tyrannic" about the mess they made.

A wild-browed Serbian in his 70's with the manner of an impish schoolboy, he is an amateur bird breeder whose idea of the sublime is the plumage he has bred on a blue fantail pigeon, or a caramel-colored star on a dove's forehead.

It was turned to face into the wind by a fantail.

A crowd of people gathered on the fantail to watch.

He was happy to have such good fighters and close friends on that fantail with him.

"You can make out the fantail and the top half of the rudder."

Command and control stay on the fantail, everybody else to the bridge.

It originally had a fantail, but this is now missing.

Usually the fantail was a good place to think.

In 1927 a stock was replaced and the fantail repaired.

Drop whatever you're doing and head to the fantail now!"

When we get to the fantail, you'll see the .

Some of the larger direct engines were turned to wind by a fantail.

These included a new fantail and repairs to the sails.

There are four sails and a fantail with eight blades.

A single or double fantail could be had, per the customer's wishes.

Shells exploded in an engine room and on the fantail.

In July 1915 two sails and the fantail were blown off.

All the mess of gear on the fantail, then, really served a purpose!

"Yeah, four of them up ropes, and more down on the fantail.

The mill only has two sails and the fantail is missing.

On the night of 2-3 January 1976, the fantail was destroyed in a gale.

One night I was assigned to stand watch on the fantail of our ship with a young enlisted man.

Light shone through the fantail window above the door.

A few panicked and scrambled up a ladder to the fantail.

A ball of fire boiled up from the fantail.

The fantail descended and the how rose as the screws bit into the sea.