Champion-bred pigeon sells for $1.42 million at auction
That ain’t pigeon feed. Armando, a champion-bred racing pigeon from Belgium, sold at an auction over the weekend for a world record amount — nearly $1.5 million. “Nobody expected this. No one,” auctioneer Jorge Ferrari, of Pigeon Paradise in Brussels, told Reuters. The previous record for a homing pigeon sold at auction stood at $425,000....