I’ll take a red-tail and its chicks over one of those cooing things any time.
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Pigeon racers are notorious for killing raptors for just that reason. E.g., https://www.stamfordadvocate.com/local/article/Man-kills-hawks-for-preying-on-his-racing-pigeons-6838512.php
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I would have said the buyer is Mike Tyson - but I think even he would balk at that price. This is the guy that reportedly spent his $400 million fortune on all sorts of crazy shit.
…or “Kestrel manoeuvres in the dark.”
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Is this just for money-laundering somehow, like high-end art sales are reputed to be?
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Was just a couple of weeks ago I was watching the live cam of the Melbourne peregrine falcons and the dad bought back half a pigeons carcass to feed the young and it had a band on it’s leg! Yikes!!
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Yes, what a magnificent beast that would be in the pigeon stud farm.
Hope it doesn’t break a leg and then be euthanized and turned into cat food 
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About the same as those free pigeons strutting around, pooping on everything I suspect.
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Let us not mention the unfortunate fate of Speckled Jim. . .
Kim was New Kim’s mother. Some pigeon names are quite fanciful. Others, not so much.
Yes, but is it able to reproduce?
I remember seeing a survey of the most popular dog names, and “New Dog” ranked surprisingly high.
I have cooked pigeon in a high end restaurant although we used the term squab!
May Speckled Jim live on in our hearts and stomachs.
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Yeah, I suppose “flying rat” might put customers off.
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People sell reproductions of Picasso paintings all the time.
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He would have liked that joke.
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