US → Australia 13,000 km of pigeons flew… “A quarantine violation, soon euthanasia”

In Australia, a pigeon crossing the Pacific Ocean and violating quarantine regulations was euthanized. Photos are not related to the article. © News1 Reporter Jinhwan Kim

A pigeon flying from the United States to Australia across the Pacific Ocean was euthanized for fear of spreading the novel coronavirus infection (Corona 19).

According to the BBC on the 14th, an American pigeon named’Joe’ crosses the Pacific Ocean and is on suspicion of violating Australia’s strict quarantine rules and is at risk of euthanasia.

The Australian Department of Agriculture and Environment will soon catch Joe and perform euthanasia. A spokesman for the Australian Ministry of Agriculture, Environment and Environment said in a statement that “animals that do not meet import health status and inspection requirements, regardless of origin, cannot stay in Australia.”

Joe appeared in Melbourne, Australia on December 26th, two months after he disappeared while flying in the US state of Oregon in late October last year.

Kevin Sellybird, who found Joe in the backyard of his house at the time, told the Associated Press that he looked shy and broke the biscuit and left it. Sellybird discovered through an Internet search that Joe was registered as the owner of Alabama, USA, and disappeared during a pigeon race in Oregon.

As the news of Joe became a hot topic, officials from the Australian Ministry of Agriculture, Water and Environment, who were concerned about infection, visited Mr. Cellibird. It is not known exactly how Joe was able to reach southern Australia, 8,000 miles (12,874 kilometers) off the west coast of the United States, but the Department of Agriculture, Water and Environment believes Joe was aboard a freighter.

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