• PHOTO: Lofts being released at last year’s Pigeon Races in Gulargambone. These pigeons take around 6 hours to reach their home destination in Canberra. (This is a 2020 news story)
A virus has struck down another social event.
The annual Gulargambone Pigeon Races were cancelled this year, for the first time in five years, but this time the cause wasn’t COVID-19.
The pigeons, who usually travel from Canberra, had been struck ill with an avian virus.
“They’ve got the coronavirus, the old pigeons . . .
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