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Fake US leg band gets pigeon a reprieve in Australia
AP ^ | Jan. 15, 2021 | ROD McGUIRK

Posted on 01/15/2021 3:16:26 PM PST by McGruff

A pigeon that Australia declared a biosecurity risk has received a reprieve after a U.S. bird organization declared its identifying leg band was fake.

The band suggested the bird found in a Melbourne backyard on Dec. 26 was a racing pigeon that had left the U.S. state of Oregon, 13,000 kilometers (8,000 miles) away, two months earlier.

On that basis, Australian authorities on Thursday said they considered the bird a disease risk and planned to kill it.

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

(Excerpt) Read more at apnews.com ...


TOPICS: Pets/Animals; Travel
KEYWORDS: biden; birds; fakehomer; fakenews; frauds; joe; joebiden; pigeon; racingpigeon
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1 posted on 01/15/2021 3:16:26 PM PST by McGruff
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Here's the suspect.

Notice no mask.

2 posted on 01/15/2021 3:18:47 PM PST by McGruff (We're no better than a third world country now)
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To: McGruff

Even pigeons want to identify as illegal aliens to get some intersectionality.


3 posted on 01/15/2021 3:22:28 PM PST by posterchild
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What is the airspeed velocity of a banded pigeon?
4 posted on 01/15/2021 3:25:01 PM PST by freedomlover
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I did a double take; for a second, I was thinking “leg band” referred to a music genre I never heard of. Darn homonyms . . .


5 posted on 01/15/2021 3:26:56 PM PST by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: McGruff

Fake news, fake votes, fake leg bands, what next?


6 posted on 01/15/2021 3:30:07 PM PST by fruser1
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To: fruser1
fake inauguration fake congress
7 posted on 01/15/2021 3:34:13 PM PST by rolling_stone (usa nice experiment ruined by "progressives'" )
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To: McGruff

Reads like Babylon Bee!

“Australia’s Agriculture Department, which is responsible for biosecurity, agreed that the pigeon dubbed Joe, after U.S. President-elect Joe Biden, was wearing a “fraudulent copy” leg band.”


8 posted on 01/15/2021 3:40:10 PM PST by TexasGator (Z1z)
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To: freedomlover

“What is the airspeed velocity”

Speed = Distance/Time

Velocity = Displacement/Time in a direction.


9 posted on 01/15/2021 3:44:39 PM PST by TexasGator (Z1z)
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To: McGruff

It’s not a ‘racing pigeon’. It’s what’s known as a ‘feather foot’, a breed for show, not homing. Fly across the Pacific against prevailing winds? Yeah, sure, and Joe Biden won the election too if you believe Fatso Featherball arrived from the US.

Next week the media will be reporting that a yeti paraglided into Sydney from the Himalayas.

Q: How do they recruit journalists these days?

A: Give all candidates an intelligence test, with the ones that don’t have any hired immediately.


10 posted on 01/15/2021 3:47:06 PM PST by Big Bunyip
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To: McGruff

It’s a pigeon of a little bit of color.


11 posted on 01/15/2021 3:47:50 PM PST by tinyowl (A is A)
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To: McGruff

And no little hat!


12 posted on 01/15/2021 3:59:07 PM PST by kaktuskid
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To: freedomlover

African or European?


13 posted on 01/15/2021 4:01:44 PM PST by Hulka ( )
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To: Hulka

Jamacian cross


14 posted on 01/15/2021 4:04:34 PM PST by ptsal (Vote R.E.D. >>>Remove Every Democrat ***)
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To: McGruff

FAKE? TRUMP’s FAULT!!


15 posted on 01/15/2021 4:06:42 PM PST by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives our fortunes and our sacred honor." )
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To: McGruff

Yay!


16 posted on 01/15/2021 4:09:12 PM PST by Hot Tabasco
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17 posted on 01/15/2021 4:11:28 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Olog-hai
#5: "I did a double take; for a second, I was thinking “leg band” referred to a music genre I never heard of."

The original leg band.


18 posted on 01/15/2021 4:28:49 PM PST by Governor Dinwiddie (Stop The Steal)
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To: McGruff

OK How do I get some (fake) leg band?

I eat only grain, fly one hour per day for exercise, never speak against Ho/Bo (coo coo love hoo love boo).


19 posted on 01/15/2021 4:33:04 PM PST by Scrambler Bob (This is not /s. It is just as viable as any MSM 'information', maybe more so!)
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Joe the pigeon, named after the fake president-elect is a flying feathered fraud? Who could have guessed some fowl play was afoot?


20 posted on 01/15/2021 4:57:51 PM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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