Joe the pigeon escapes death row in Australian nationality saga
Jan 23, 2021
2 minutes
A PIGEON that Australia declared a biosecurity risk has received a reprieve after a 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
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