Is dyeing birds as part of a gender reveal a 'thing'?

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BBC news story - sightings of a 'blue pigeon'.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1d71p2xqkgo

Are we really plumbing these depths as part of gender reveals? WTF?

If you read the article that's just a suggested theory as to how and why the bird is blue. It could just as easily have been caught by some enthusiastic kids with finger paints or fallen in a bucket of fence stain.

I hate gender reveals as much as the next person but there's not a lot of point getting outraged about something that we don't even know happened.