Form GRD-00 · Public Notice

For General Circulation

Public Information Notice

What Is This?

Issue · 1 May 2026
Circulation · Public

You are holding a chicken.

This is not unusual. What is unusual is that this particular chicken has been placed deliberately — by a person who found it somewhere, logged its location with this Bureau^*, and then hid it again for the next person to find.

That person is you.

The Obligation of the Finder

Your responsibilities are straightforward and non-negotiable.

I.
Log the sighting.
Visit this website. Enter the chicken’s name and ID (printed on the tag). Submit a photograph, a location, and any notes you consider relevant to the official record. The Bureau will review your submission and, if satisfactory, add it to the chicken’s permanent journey log.
II.
Pass the chicken on.
Hide the chicken somewhere new. Give it to a friend, a colleague, or a stranger of reasonable trustworthiness. Leave it somewhere it will be discovered. Do not keep it. The chicken must continue its journey.

That is all that is required of you.

II.

What Happens Next

Once your sighting is approved, it will appear on the chicken’s public record. Anyone following the chicken’s journey will be notified. Your location will be added to the map.

The chicken will move on. The record will grow. The journey will continue indefinitely, or until the chicken is lost, eaten, or otherwise retired from active service.

III.

A Note on the Bureau

The Travelling Chicken Administrative Bureau exists solely to maintain the integrity of the sighting record. It does not endorse any particular chicken, location, or finder. It asks only that you do your part.

The chicken is counting on you.

(Not literally. It is a stuffed chicken.)

*The Bureau is, in practice, whoever most recently approved a sighting — or the individual responsible for placing this chicken into the world in the first place. The Bureau has no formal offices, no staff, and no budget. It is doing its best.

IV.

Frequently Asked Questions

Why are there two Ls in Travelling?

Because this is a British website. In British English, verbs ending in a single vowel followed by L double the L before a suffix: travel becomes travelling, cancel becomes cancelling, and so on. American English dropped the second L at some point in the nineteenth century, presumably to save ink. The Bureau has retained it. The Bureau will always retain it.

Ready to file your report?

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Register of Interest

Interested in sending your own chicken on a journey? Register your interest and the Bureau will write to you when operatives become available for issue.