{"id":8777,"date":"2021-01-15T04:45:16","date_gmt":"2021-01-15T04:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/asia\/australasia\/article\/3117854\/bird-australia-could-escape-death-us-leg-band-comes-under"},"modified":"2021-01-15T04:45:16","modified_gmt":"2021-01-15T04:45:16","slug":"bird-in-australia-could-escape-death-as-us-leg-band-comes-under-scrutiny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/15\/bird-in-australia-could-escape-death-as-us-leg-band-comes-under-scrutiny\/","title":{"rendered":"Bird in Australia could escape death as \u2018US leg band\u2019 comes under scrutiny"},"content":{"rendered":"A pigeon that Australia declared a possible biosecurity risk may escape death after the authenticity of its leg band identifying it as a US racing bird was thrown in doubt.The blue band suggested the bird found in a Melbourne backyard on December 26 was a US racing pigeon that had left the American state of Oregon two months earlier.On that basis, Australian authorities on Thursday said they considered the bird a disease risk and planned to kill it.A US bird travelled 13,000km to Melbourne\u2026\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/asia\/australasia\/article\/3117854\/bird-australia-could-escape-death-us-leg-band-comes-under\">South China Morning Post<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A pigeon that Australia declared a possible biosecurity risk may escape death after the authenticity of its leg band identifying it as a US racing bird was thrown in doubt.The blue band suggested the bird found in a Melbourne backyard on December 26 wa&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":802,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8777"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/802"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8777"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8825,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8777\/revisions\/8825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}