Dyeing pigeons pink to protect from predators is ânonsense'
When Brits began posting pictures of pink pigeons to social media, the mystery took flight.Had the rare Columba mayeri, a pink pigeon unique to the small Indian Ocean island Mauritius that belongs to the same family as the dodo and narrowly avoided extinction itself in the 1990s, suddenly migrated to Britain?Finally, it seems the riddle has been solved, and the conundrum was in fact much ado about...