The Australian Performing Tumbler (APT) is a breed of fancy pigeon.
Wendell Levi discusses the tumbling performance and several early Tumbler breeds in his book The Pigeon.
Nowadays however the breed is maintained mainly for exhibition purposes having first been developed for the show pen in the State of New South Wales.
A show standard was adopted by the Australian National Pigeon Association in 1991 and has now been upgraded further thanks largely to the efforts of Mr Max Van Geet and Mr Vaughan Kelly[3] The APT is medium faced, pearl eyed, clean legged and quite reminiscent of the old style English Long Faced Tumbler as seen in Levi's book.
It has a rounded head, short cobby body and a selection of classic tumbler colors such as recessive red, kite and almond.