This is the most expensive pigeon in the world, sold for IDR 26.7 billion

KNESSELARE – A two-year-old female racing pigeon named New Kim sold for up to 1.6 million Euros or more than Rp.26.7 billion in auction online in Knesselare, Belgium. The buyer was an unknown Chinese citizen.

Auction party online Pigeon Paradise (PIPA) said the buyer paid 1.6 million euros for a New Kim dove. This is a new record for the most expensive pigeon in the world.

According to PIPA, the sales beat the 1.25 million euros paid for the Armando male pigeon last year.

New Kim is auctioned with a starting price of 200 euros. (Read: Donald Trump finally admits that Biden won the US presidential election)

“I believe this is a world record, there has never been an official sale documented at such a price,” PIPA chairman Nikolaas Gyselbrecht told AFP, Monday (16/11/2020). “I don’t think we can reach that number.”

According to him, the unnamed buyer might want to breed the New Kim.

New Kim won the 2018 crown as “Ace Pigeon Grand National Middle Distance” in competitions held in Châteauroux and Argenton-sur-Creuse in France. (Also read: Increasingly Hunted, Betta Fish Business Continues to Thrive during the Pandemic)

Europe’s top birds have won global fame in recent years and particularly in China where pigeon races can produce big wins.

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