Armando, a champion-bred racing pigeon from Belgium, sold at an auction over the weekend for a world record amount -- nearly $1.5 million. 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. “The two Chinese [men] had told me in advance that they absolutely wanted Armando,” the pigeon’s breeder, Joël Verschoot, 63, told the paper. This is a crowning glory of all those years in the pigeon sport.

Source: Fox News March 19, 2019 15:22 UTC