Pink flmingo becoming extinct

It seems that the plastic pink flamingo is going the way of dodo. The plastic bird, a kitsch icon that has populated the front lawns of American homes since the 1950s, is about to become extinct.

Union Products of Leominster, Massachusetts, which has made the birds since 1957, is going out of business.

"The plant's pink flamingo will be an endangered species," Dennis Plante, the company's president, said.

The moulded plastic sculpture mounted on wire legs has been reviled and revered in equal measure. The bird lent its name to director John Waters's 1972 film examining bad taste. But that only helped to make the hapless bird more desirable.

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