From the Mississippi State University Horticulturist Central Mississippi Research & Extension Center:

You awake one morning thinking all is well, you walk out to get the newspaper, and there they are in your yard, a dozen pink plastic flamingoes.

The author, MSU Horticulturist Norman Winter, spoke of how great it was to see “a pink-looking, low cloud moving on the distant horizon” during a trip to the southern Caribbean island of Bonaire. The pink cloud was “a spectacular sight of thousands of pink flamingoes making their late afternoon trek to South America.”

He then spoke of the popularity of plastic pink flamingos being used in pranks such as fundraisers.

They were put there because some fund-raising organization deemed them to be ugly and an embarrassment. If you want to get rid of them you have to pay to a worthy cause and perhaps have your best friend blighted with the birds the next night. This is a great fund-raiser. Some of the residents show their moxy. They pay to the cause, but make wonderful use of the birds as temporary yard art. Others feel the shame and can’t wait to be rid of them.

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