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January 18, 2021
A pigeon initially believed to have made an 8,000-mile journey across the Pacific from Oregon to Australia was set to be killed because the country declared it a quarantine risk. But the bird has now been given a reprieve after its identifying leg band was deemed a fake.
January 17, 2021
CANBERRA, Australia (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
January 16, 2021
January 17, 2021 CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA (AP) — A pigeon that Australia declared a biosecurity risk has received a reprieve after a United States (US) bird organisation declared its identifying leg band was fake. The band suggested the bird found in a Melbourne backyard on December 26 was a racing pigeon that had left the US state of Oregon, 13,000 kilometres away, two months earlier. On that basis, Australian authorities on Thursday said they considered the bird a disease risk and planned to kil...
January 15, 2021
Australias 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.
January 15, 2021
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.
January 15, 2021
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.
January 15, 2021
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.
January 15, 2021
Authorities thought it had made its way all the way from Oregon and considered it a biosecurity risk. But a U.S. bird group said an identifying band on its leg was fake.
January 15, 2021
Authorities concluded that 'Joe the Pigeon is highly likely to be Australian and does not present a biosecurity risk.'
January 15, 2021
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.