Australia to execute racing pigeon that crossed Pacific from Oregon

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CANBERRA, Australia -- A racing pigeon has survived an extraordinary 13,000-kilometer (8,000-mile) Pacific Ocean crossing from the United States to find a new home in Australia. Now authorities consider the bird a quarantine risk and plan to kill it.

Kevin Celli-Bird said Thursday he discovered the exhausted bird that arrived in his Melbourne backyard on Dec. 26 had disappeared from a race in the U.S. state of Oregon on Oct. 29.

Experts suspect the pigeon that Celli-Bird has named Joe, after the U.S. president-elect, hitched a ride on a cargo ship to cross the Pacific.

Joe's feat has attracted the attention of the Australian media but also of the notoriously strict Australian Quarantine and Inspection Service.

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'Fake' US leg band may get pigeon a reprieve in Australia

A pigeon that Australia declared a biosecurity risk may get a reprieve after a U.S. bird organization declared its identifying leg band is fake

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Save Joe, Era?

 

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Australia to kill globe trotting pigeon (quarantine risk, bird diseases). Update: Not American. Won't be killed.

News Article Motherfucker flew HARD. Come on Australia, you can't kill the poor fella after naming him this. :( Small excerpt. Thread title says it all. What is your opinion, Era? Personally I think if this bird pulled off the kind of travel that would make Jules Verne proud, he should be...

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