FILE - A racing pigeon sits on his cage before a pigeon racing tournament in Jakarta, Indonesia on June 20, 2020. (Yogi Aroon Sidabariba/INA Photo Agency/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)CANBERRA, Australia - 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.