\n North Wales Wild Bird Care received reports of the distressed gull at around 12.45pm on Sunday (May 10) after it was seen struggling to escape from a building on Charles Street, believed to be the former Bumbles Cafe premises.\n<\/p>\n
\n The volunteer-led organisation, which specialises in rescuing and rehabilitating gulls, said it has been unable to help because there is currently no access to the building.\n<\/p>\n
\n Gillian Traylor, spokesperson for North Wales Wild Bird Care, said the situation was \u201cheart-breaking\u201d.\n<\/p>\n
\n The gull can be seen here flying at the windows of the building in an attempt to escape (Image: Gillian Traylor)\n<\/p>\n
\n She said: \u201cThe bird is apparently very distressed and cannot escape.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cWe cannot help this gull, which is a protected species under the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981, as we cannot access the building. The RSPCA were unable to help and one of our volunteers has reported the situation to the police, but no immediate help can be given to this poor bird who must be desperate for food and water.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
\n Gillian Traylor, an admin at North Wales Wild Bird Care (Image: Gillian Traylor)\n<\/p>\n
\n The group said it had posted appeals on Facebook in an attempt to identify or contact the owner of the property, but so far had only been told that the building used to house Bumbles Cafe.\n<\/p>\n
\n The RSPCA were unable to intervene because volunteers could not provide access to the locked derelict building, meaning rescuers were unable to safely reach the trapped gull.\n<\/p>\n
\n The abandoned building on Charles Street in Wrexham which the gull is trapped inside (Image: Google Maps)\n<\/p>\n
\n Volunteers fear the gull faces serious risks if it remains trapped inside, including starvation, dehydration, exhaustion and injury from repeatedly flying into windows and walls while trying to escape.\n<\/p>\n
\n Ms Traylor added: \u201cThe sad thing is that the bird will probably be dead by the time we get help.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
\n A volunteer from the organisation is expected to travel to the scene later today to see whether food or water can be passed into the building while efforts continue to gain access.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"North Wales Wild Bird Care received reports of the distressed gull at around 12.45pm on Sunday (May 10)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":952906,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3847],"tags":[70,16,15,1717],"class_list":{"0":"post-952905","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom","11":"tag-wildlife"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/952905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=952905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/952905\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/952906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=952905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=952905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=952905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}