https://www.washingtonpost.com/worl...62632e-563e-11eb-acc5-92d2819a1ccb_story.html
Joe the pigeon traveled from Oregon to Australia. Now he’s on death row.
By Erin Cunningham
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9145857/Australia-kill-pigeon-crossed-Pacific-Oregon.html
Australia hunts Joe the racing pigeon who made epic 8,000-mile journey from Oregon to Sydney.... only to get a death sentence because he could be carrying COVID
A racing pigeon which survived a gruelling 8,000-mile, two-month journey across the Pacific from the US to Australia will now be killed over fears it is carrying Covid.
Racing pigeon went missing during an event in Oregon on October 29 last year It then 'rocked up' in a back garden in Melbourne, Australia, on December 24 Australian border officials now plan to kill the bird over fears it could have Covid But Kevin Celli-Bird, who nursed the pigeon when it arrived, says the bird will be hard to catch because it has regained 'full strength'
The bird went missing during a race in Oregon on October 29 last year before being discovered emaciated and exhausted in a garden in Melbourne on December 26 - with experts saying it likely hitched a ride across the ocean on a cargo ship.----------------------------------------------------
Kevin Celli-Bird said he caught the pigeon, which he has nicknamed Joe after President-elect Joe Biden, and nursed it back to health on pieces of dry biscuit.
But when the story hit local media, Celli-Bird received a call from quarantine officers ordering him to catch the bird a second time so they can kill it.
Celli-Bird says it is now impossible for him to catch Joe because, having regained his former strength, he simply hops away - leaving wildlife officers with the job of hunting down the pigeon themselves.
The real Question:
Is The Pigeon a Democrat or a Republican?
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