Urban Pigeon Dies in Trendy Gender Reveal.

A king pigeon that was dyed bright pink and released into the wild has died a week after it was rescued from a New York City park. The animal likely perished from inhaling toxic dye fumes, per the Wild Bird Fund (WBF), the wildlife rehabilitation and education center that took the bird in and cared for it.

"I don't think we've ever really had a pink pigeon come into the clinic, so we were all pretty surprised," Antonio Sanchez of the WBF tells WABC. "We were honestly disgusted that someone would do this." The bird—nicknamed Flamingo—was barely older than a fledgling and showed signs of long-term malnutrition, according to the fund.

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