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    Joe the pigeon traveled from Oregon to Australia. Now he’s on death row.

    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?

    Cheers,
 
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