Two flamingoes walk after they were released from the winter shelter for the first time this year at an amusement park in Gwacheon south of Seoul on February 26, 2009. (Kim Jae-Hwan/AFP/Getty Images)
In 1979, University of Wisconsin students planted roughly 1,000 of the pink plastic birds on a grassy incline outside the dean's office.
Alderman Marsha Rummel told the Wisconsin State Journal the council's 15-4 vote ensured the event was "captured in our imaginations forever."
