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Australian authorities were planning to put down a pigeon that reached the country from the United States, but a trip back to the US is also on the cards. Melbourne resident Kevin Celli-Bird found the emaciated pigeon in his garden on boxing day and discovered that it was registered to an owner in Alabama state in the United States, by tracing the tag on its leg. It was not clear how the bird, which was last spotted during a pigeon race in the western state of Oregon on October 29th, managed to make the more than 13,000 kilometres journey across the Pacific Ocean.