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In June, 2019, an exotic-looking bird was spotted along the A41 (a major artery connecting London with Birkenhead, England). The bright orange bird appeared to be having trouble flying, and seemed to be in distress. Motorists stopped, captured the colorful bird, and took him to the nearest animal rescue. Tiggywinkles, the world’s leading wildlife hospital was named for Beatrix Potter’s hedgehog laundress, as its first patients were hedgehogs who’d had unfortunate encounters with cars. Started nearly half a century ago by the Stocker family in their back garden, Tiggys has treated over 300,000 patients! The orange bird turned out to be a common herring gull who’d somehow become completely covered in powdered turmeric (a pungent, vivid orange ingredient in curry). The spice made it difficult to fly, but otherwise, the bird was perfectly healthy. Workers scrubbed him clean and named him Vinny after vindaloo curry, a popular Indian dish. Once he could fly again, Vinny was released.