Viennese Gansel Tumbler
The Viennese Gansel tumbler is a regional tumbler from the Vienna fancy-pigeon tradition. Gansel, related to goose in German-speaking usage, usually points to a particular light-and-dark marking impression rather than to size or behavior. As a tumbler, the bird belongs to the domestic pigeon lines once valued for agile flight, though many Viennese varieties are now judged chiefly on type, head, color, and pattern.
Management depends on whether a line is still flown. Flying families need gradual settling, modest training groups, and protection from weather and predators. Exhibition families need more attention to the Gansel pattern, clean feather, and the refined Viennese head. Breeders should avoid losing vigor while narrowing the markings too aggressively, since rare varieties can become fragile when kept in small numbers. Buyers should ask whether the birds tumble, kit, or are bench-only, and should compare adults to understand the expected pattern after molt.
Colors: Almond, Ash Red, Bar, Barless, Black, Blue, Brown, Checker, Dilute, Dun, Grizzle, Indigo, Mottle, Opal, Pied, Recessive Red, Red, Silver, Splash, Spread, White, Yellow
