It ain&#039;t easy being a Pigeon,

Originally posted by simgrund ↑

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?

Cheers,

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" But the American Racing Pigeon Union intervened to argue that the bird's tag was fake. "

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...-the-pigeon-spared-fake-leg-tag-b1787853.html

News World Australasia
‘Joe the Pigeon’ is spared over ‘fake leg tag’

It was initially thought ‘Joe’ had travelled some 8,000 miles from the US to Australia

Matt Mathers@MattEm90
2 days ago
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All is not what what it seems on this one; however the History
does have this:

"The longest recorded flight made by a homing pigeon took place in 1931, when the resolute bird flew from Arras, France, to its home in Saigon, Vietnam. When released, the pigeon flew straight as an arrow for 7,200 miles over unfamiliar territory to its home in only 24 days.
What is the Longest Distance Flown by a Racing Pigeon ... "
Cheers,