By Carol Tannenhauser
Alerted by a tweet from the Wild Bird Fund (below) and a story in Gothamist, we are passing on the sad news that the pink pigeon we referred to in Monday Bulletin has died. Click on Gothamist’s link for more details, but be prepared to have your heart broken.
We are deeply sad to report that Flamingo, our sweet pink pigeon, has passed away. Despite our best efforts to reduce the fumes coming off the dye, while keeping him calm and stable, he died in the night. We believe his death was caused by inhaling the toxins.
📷: Alexis Ayala pic.twitter.com/218hh6oN8P
— Wild Bird Fund (@wildbirdfund) February 7, 2023
Very sad. Also sad that 3,000 animals are killed for food every….second in the USA.
I hope future generations will treat animals better and we can move on from eating meat.
There is a huge difference between killing animals for food and killing animals because you are too stupid to know dying them pink is bad for them.
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Congratulations, whoever it was who thought you needed to make a big production out of whatever your fetus’s genitals might be. Christ.
Assuming this was for a gender reveal, they’ve now started that child’s life by killing an innocent living thing–and doing so in a terrible, agonizing way. I don’t subscribe to superstition, but that’s some bad mojo to put on a kid before it even makes it out of the womb. Just sad.
“Assuming this was for a gender reveal…..”
Has this been verified? How would one know? Who would admit this?
Frankly, it seems like a rather dramatic, attention-grabbing assumption by an entity that would stand to benefit from dramatic, attention-grabbing headlines.
Don’t be so gull-ible.
who is benefitting from this tragedy, exactly? WBF, who tried to save this poor thing’s life?
Thank you wild bird fund for trying to help this defenseless animal—whatever demon did this to this bird deserves some karma—even if it lived it would have stuck out until it could replace those feathers and be at risk—pigeons share the city and once you look into their background you will see they are much more than flying rats!
I hope the Wild Bird Fund will distribute this news widely. Perhaps other deaths will be avoided. What heartless, thoughtless people torture a defenseless animal for pleasure?
Poor little guy.
Social media and people’s uncontrollable urge to gain their 15-minutes of internet fame is destroying society. Our younger generation has already lost the ability to communicate face-to-face. Rumors and mistruths travel at the speed of light. School yard bullying is now a 24-hour online attack that kids must deal with. Look around, people cannot put their phones down. They are addicted. They walk in front of cars and ignore each other at the dinner table. Technology is killing us and we don’t see it because we’re looking at Tik Tok. Sad.
GOSM (Get Off Social Media!). Life is going on in the real world.
older gens don’t get it! i m online 15 or16 hourz everyday, always connected & in touch with what is popular. U have 2 monetize! turning UWS! CBS!!! TB4U!
You know you just posted this on social media, right?
Poor pigeon. If only we could find the jerks who did this and give them some prison time.! Such gross cruelty perpetrated on an innocent and helpless creature . Thank you to the Wild Bird Fund for trying to save him.
The cruelty is beyond belief!
This was done supposedly to announce the birth of a child. I pity the poor child having to endure parents that would do this to an helpless, innocent creature!!!
This is gross. Cruelty to animals. Sad that the pink pigeon died as a result of kinky people coloring the poor thing with toxins. Shame, shame, SHAME!
The problem is that people who do this type of thing are engaging in vanity for vanity’s sake. They are incapable of feeling shame except when they’re caught, and then, they fake remorse in order to mask the shame that they were caught, not because they were performing a stunt that would cause distress to another creature. Repulsive human behavior.
Thanks to Carol Tannenhauser of the West Side Rag for covering this grim, heartbreaking story as it unfolded. I was glad to see that the New York Times followed up two days ago, reporting that the NYPD’s Animal Cruelty Investigation Squad has now launched an investigation–though the Times failed to give credit to our neighborhood’s great Wild Bird Fund for their efforts to save the poor, suffering bird’s life (the article refers vaguely only to “a wildlife rehabilitation organization”).
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/09/nyregion/pink-pigeon-flamingo-gender-reveal.html