1:30pm Monday 15th June 2009
THE UK Border Agency had to call wildlife rescuers after a fight broke out between rival species of gulls.
Volunteer rescuers from East Sussex Wildlife Rescue and Ambulance Service (WRAS) attended Newhaven Harbour at about 9pm on Saturday after a gull chick fell from one roof, leading to a fight between neighbouring herring gulls and blackbacked gulls on another roof housing harbour offices.
Staff at the UK Border Agency found a black-backed gull chick in a drainage channel on the flat roof, where it would have died if left. Herring gull and black-backed gull chicks are difficult to tell apart. Agency staff had moved the chick to a neighbouring flat roof where the herring gulls were nesting and a fight broke out.
Rescuers had a difficult job getting the chick back to the top of the 35ft building it had fallen from but it was reunited with its parents by 10.30pm.
To make a donation to WRAS, go to www.wildlifeambulance.org or send a donation to East Sussex WRAS, PO Box 2148,
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