Interesting bird spotting. Hainault, East London (1 Viewer)

[Melamite]

Any ideas? Never seen anything like this before!

 

[delia todd]

Hi Melamite and a warm welcome to you from all the Staff and Moderators. This appears, to me, to be a feral pigeon with some input from a fancy one. But for some ideas of what species may be in there, I've moved your post to the ID forum.

I'm sure you will enjoy it here and I look forward to hearing your news.

 

[THE_FERN]

Domestic pigeon with dye markings. Racers do this to make identifying their birds easier from a distance. We saw a variety of bright pink etc ones like this in Cuba recently

 

[Kits]

Welcome to Birdforum. Yes, it’s had dye applied.

 

[Butty]

Racers do this to make identifying their birds easier from a distance.

I have the impression that it's done more for 'fun'.

 

[Melamite]

The bird has been hanging around my garden for a few days! I thought it might be due. Particularly the pink on its chest but the purple looks almost part of its colouring as it’s also underneath the wing too