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Pigeon thought to have crossed Pacific from Oregon escapes death in Australia

Pigeon thought to have crossed Pacific from Oregon escapes death in Australia

Pigeon thought to have crossed Pacific from Oregon escapes death in Australia
Jan 15, 2021 1 min, 5 secs

The band suggested the bird found in a Melbourne backyard on Dec.

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

The band number belongs to a blue bar pigeon in the United States and that is not the bird pictured in Australia, she said.

"The bird band in Australia is counterfeit and not traceable," Roberts said.

"I thought this is just a feel-good story and now you guys want to put this pigeon away and I thought it's not on, you know, you can't do that, there has got to be other options," Celli-Bird said of the threat to euthanize.

Celli-Bird had contacted the American Racing Pigeon Union to find the bird's owner based on the number on the leg band.

"That bird didn't finish the race series, it didn't make any money and so its worthless, really," Cramer said.

Cramer said it was possible a pigeon could cross the Pacific on a ship from Oregon to Australia.

It's not even a racing pigeon," Cramer said.

"I might have to change him to Aussie Joe, but he's just the same pigeon," Celli-Bird said.

Lars Scott, a carer at Pigeon Rescue Melbourne, a bird welfare group, said pigeons with American leg bans were not uncommon around the city.

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