Mom is stunned when the bright pink PIGEON lands outside her window as theories run wild

The woman who saw the unusual-looking bird out the window thought she was hallucinating while visiting her mother in Nelson, Lancashire

A woman was shocked after spotting a bright pink pigeon outside her mother’s window in Lancashire last week.

Kelly Lunney, 37, was at her mother’s home last Thursday before noticing the fluorescent creature land in the community garden.

Despite some skeptics who believe humans may have colored the bird, Kelly believes it could be a pink pigeon from Nesoenas mayeri, native to Mauritius.

There are only about 500 birds left in the world, and traditionally they have a peachy chest and back, rust-colored tail, and deep pink beak.

The incredibly bright pink bird was part of a flock that had flown down to peck at the ground when Kelly noticed it.

Left in a state of confusion, she feared she would “see things” before confirming with her mother that she could also see the pink dove in the garden.

When her mother confirmed she could see it, too, Kelly pulled out her phone and began snapping footage of the incredible bird in flight.

Of what she saw, Kelly said: “I thought I was seeing things at first – or it was just something weird.

“But then I got my mum out of her bed too, just to be sure.

“More than anything, it’s shocking to see a pink dove, but it’s something to tell your grandchildren.”

Kelly, who is from Burnley in Lancashire, said the bird stayed around for a couple of hours after first noticing it.

She continued: “I then later saw it coming back around 7 or 8 o’clock at night. And since the time it first came, it’s come back every day.”

“As soon as my mum looked at it too, I got a few pics of it and thought I’d google it because I’d never seen one before.

“My mom had never seen one in all the time she was alive either.”

There have been some who have questioned the authenticity of the bird, with many believing it may have fallen into a neon-painted vat, Kelly believes it is real.

She said: “A couple of people have asked me if it’s been color dipped, but it has pink feet – and usually they’re like a white, gray color.

“And when it raises its wings, it has white lines underneath it and it looks identical on both sides when it’s flying.

“Other people in the community garden saw it – and there’s a man down there actually feeding them, so I’m sure he would have seen it too.

“I think everyone was really shocked by that.”

Although pink doves are rarely sighted in the UK, the birds were found in London in 2012 and Bristol in 2015.

Some of the unusual birds have only a pink tinge on the wingtips, while others, like the one Kelly spotted, are much brighter in color.

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