Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2020/11/17/this-pigeon-just-sold-for-1-9-million.html
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Will it be posted to the buyer, or…?
I don’t know if I’d invest that much in something that could be eaten by a kestrel in the wild. One dive-bomb out of the sky later, and you’re out $1.9 mil.
What’s the shelf life of a pigeon that price?
Pigeon betting must be wild to drive these prices. I wonder if they are buying it for breeding? Horses can go for 10s of millions, so I guess this is just a less expensive, easier to keep tiny ‘horse’?
Also - this bird deserves a tiny crown:
[Looks mournfully out the window at my overrun bird feeder.]
Around here, we have Mourning Doves. They love to land on the roof of the feeder, peer down at the seed, but only the rare genius figures out how to land on the bar and get some. (Usually they give up and peck at what’s on the ground.)
New keyboard, etc, etc…
I hate those birds so much, but they are prolific in my area too. They are so unintelligent compared to most birds in the area that they will not move out of the way for bikes or cars, they will poop everywhere (more than pigeons I’ve found) and they will attract cats. We call them the “idiot birds” which is probably not very nice, but I doubt they’d understand. We also have “sky mice” (sparrows), “killer blues” (the jays), and even a flock of turkeys (one of which is albino which is kind of cool).
You need the fastest pigeons to keep up to date on tulip prices, so this is a savvy move on some coal barons part.
The mourning doves keep the hawks happy.
Word is that the buyer of New Kim wants to mate the bird with Armando, the previous record-holder. Whoever he is, he’s a billionaire, so I guess prices don’t matter much.
I suspect it will be kept strictly for breeding only.
I mean… how would you know for sure you go the right one?
Also, some pigeons glow under black light!
New Kim
I’m guessing Kim didn’t live up to expectations
A Picasso painting is likely to have a lifespan longer than six years, though.
Beat me to it