Prized Pigeon: Someone Just Paid 1.25 Million for a Bird
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If you were a millionaire would you pay €1.25 million for a Belgian pigeon-race champion bird?
A Belgian pigeon-race champion has become the most expensive bird of its kind ever sold after the feathered racer almost tripled the previous highest price to €1.25 million ($1.4 million).
An online auction for the star bird named Armando finished on Sunday after nearly two weeks of bids, according to the pigeon sport website Pigeon Paradise (Pipa.be), which organized the auction. A few minutes bidding opened, the price for the bird rose to more than €300,000 ($340,000) before reaching more than €500,000 ($567,000) on the last day, when two buyers clashed for the champion in the last hours of the auction.
Yes I would pay that price if it was going to taste nice. Well seriously it must be worth the money for breeding and racing as I would guess they would like to make a profit for it. If they are doing it for just the love of pigeon racing then I think they need medical intervention.
Maybe the person has a passion for birds. I think the person has plans to breed the Pigeon for the sport.
zerocenturyzero I would not be surprised if the breed of said bird could bring in a lot of cash!
jmsonl The person may even create a faster breed of racing Pigeons that could make the person lots of profits. I am sure it will be very expensive to take care of the Belgian pigeon-race champion bird.
Ohhhh.. I just see this on the news. Apparently he has very good Homing sense... And off to. Japan now to work on the stud farm.
My first thought... If he's Homing sense is that good, won't he just try to get back home.. 
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