A pigeon named Flamingo is dead after someone dyed it pink
"We don't know why this bird was dyed pink, although many of our followers have speculated that it was for a gender reveal party," a Wild Bird Fund official told NPR.
The bright pink bird won supporters beyond New York City as people hoped the young king pigeon, dubbed Flamingo, would survive its ordeal of being dyed with chemicals and then released into the wild.
But it was not to be: that Flamingo died roughly a week after a rescuer found him in Manhattan's Madison Square Park.
