Australia to kill pigeon that crossed Pacific from Oregon

[Zorro]

A racing pigeon has survived an extraordinary 13,000-kilometer (8,000-mile) Pacific Ocean crossing from the United States to find a new home in Australia. Now authorities consider the bird a quarantine risk and plan to kill it.

Kevin Celli-Bird said Thursday he discovered the exhausted bird that arrived in his Melbourne backyard on Dec. 26 had disappeared from a race in the U.S. state of Oregon on Oct. 29.

Experts suspect the pigeon that Celli-Bird has named Joe, after the U.S. president-elect, hitched a ride on a cargo ship to cross the Pacific.

Joe’s feat has attracted the attention of the Australian media but also of the notoriously strict Australian Quarantine and Inspection Service.

https://apnews.com/article/australia-to-kill-pigeon-from-oregon-faae5a66c336c8b2dc902b1ed4270345

They're worried the pigeon may be planning a coo.

[msongs]

1. why not just ship the bird back to the usa nt

[Dem2theMax]

2. Don't kill the bird. Put the bird in quarantine and then return it home.

[Blue Owl]

3. How trump-like

[IsItJustMe]

10. Ain't that the truth.

I was flying through there once. It was freaky. We landed there and before we could get off the plane, they told us to remain seated. Then stewardesses took out spray cans of some kind of chemical (think it was pesticide) and sprayed all of the open luggage departments. They are a pretty strict country when it comes to that sort of thing.

[BusyBeingBest]

4. Fucking stupid and cruel. It survived an ordeal and they can't just

find some way to isolate it and deal with it.

[nam78_two]

8. Precisely.nt

[intrepidity]

5. Harsh penalty for just wanting to get far from Trump nt

[nam78_two]

7. I think this is overly harsh

But then considering what factory-farmed chickens, pigs etc. endure daily......
We are a brutal species.

[samsingh]

9. that's evil. They should just let someone quarantee the Pigeon and ship it back.

[Generic Brad]

11. They don't have cages in Australia?