A Pigeon Survived an 8,000-mile Journey from Oregon to Australia. Authorities Plan to Kill It.

A racing pigeon has endured a phenomenal 8,000-mile Pacific Ocean crossing from the United States to locate another home in Australia. Presently specialists consider the flying creature an isolated danger and plan to slaughter it. Kevin Celli-Bird said Thursday he found the depleted fowl that showed up in his Melbourne patio on December 26 had vanished from a race in the U.S. province of Oregon on Oct. 29. Specialists presume the pigeon that Celli-Bird has named Joe, after the U.S. president-elect, hitched a ride on a load boat to cross the Pacific. Joe's accomplishment has pulled in the consideration of the Australian media yet in addition to the famously exacting Australian Quarantine and Inspection Service. Celli-Bird said isolate specialists called him on Thursday to request that he get the winged creature. "They say in the event that it is from America, they're worried about winged animal infections," he said. "They needed to know whether I could take care of them. I said, 'Frankly, I can't get it. I can get inside 500 mil (millimeters or 20 inches) of it and afterward it moves.'" He said isolate specialists were currently thinking about getting an expert fledgling catcher.