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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
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'
By ASSOCIATED PRESS
PUBLISHED: 16:11 AEDT, 14 January 2021 | UPDATED: 01:55 AEDT, 15 January 2021
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.

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.
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The real Question:
Is The Pigeon a Democrat or a Republican?

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"Is The Pigeon a Democrat or a Republican?"

Doesn't matter - he just had the good sense to get the hell out of the US
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