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Follow Up: Pigeon Given Reprieve By Australian Officials After Its Leg Band Declared A Fake

Saturday, 16 January 2021, 18:00 Dr. Tar Uncategorized 10

AP

A pigeon that Australia declared a biosecurity risk has received a reprieve after a U.S. bird organization declared its identifying leg band was fake.

The band suggested the bird found in a Melbourne backyard on Dec. 26 was a racing pigeon that had left the U.S. state of Oregon, 13,000 kilometers (8,000 miles) away, two months earlier.

On that basis, Australian authorities on Thursday said they considered the bird a disease risk and planned to kill it.

But Deone Roberts, sport development manager for the Oklahoma-based American Racing Pigeon Union, said on Friday the band was fake.

10 Comments on Follow Up: Pigeon Given Reprieve By Australian Officials After Its Leg Band Declared A Fake

  9. So illegal immigration has the potential risk to spread disease and the govt will not put it’s country at risk so it will take decisive action to eliminate the risk? That sounds hateful..,..

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  10. “Australia’s Agriculture Department, which is responsible for biosecurity, agreed that the pigeon dubbed Joe, after U.S. President-elect Joe Biden, was wearing a “fraudulent copy” leg band.”

    Everything is a fraud with Joe, so naming the flying rat Joe was appropriate….should have killed it to end its misery that’s forth coming.

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