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And no, I am not talking about this kind of boomerang
No, I am talking about this boomerang
A lesser black-backed gull from a bird rescue center in Soest (in the middle of the Netherlands) where they took in this bird last year and took care of it until the bird was strong enough to go out into the world itself. Normally birds fly away themselves but this gull thought he had found paradise by the Soest bird sanctuary and was not willing to leave. So they made that decision for him.
They (in no order whatsoever) took the bird (by car) to:
Ede (30 miles away)
Hoek van Holland (70 miles away)
Bochum (at the border with Germany, 120 miles away)
But like a real boomerang, this little boomerang gull keeps returning to the sanctuary too. So this time they had an idea, an employee from Riomare took the bird all he way to Texel, an island from the Dutch coast. The island is more than 90 miles away by car and then they needed to take a ferry to get to the island. They hoped that it would be the last time they set eyes on Boomerang but just one day later the exhausted bird had found his way back to the sanctuary, the open sea and going in a very different direction had not helped at all.
They do not mind having the bird there but the nasty thing about gulls like him is that they have a habit of preying on birds that have just hatched at the sanctuary.
But they have decided to let him remain in his nest and not try and move him again because clearly it does not work.
An expert from Sovon Bird studies in the Netherlands has said to the newspaper that gulls like this one have a real knack for finding their way home. Some gulls are wanderers and just fly where the wind takes them but others are real "homebody's". There is one gull in Katwijk who has made his home near a snack bar (Dutch small restaurant which sells snacks and fries) where he has made a living by feasting on the fries people loose/drop or throw away.
No, I am talking about this boomerang
A lesser black-backed gull from a bird rescue center in Soest (in the middle of the Netherlands) where they took in this bird last year and took care of it until the bird was strong enough to go out into the world itself. Normally birds fly away themselves but this gull thought he had found paradise by the Soest bird sanctuary and was not willing to leave. So they made that decision for him.
They (in no order whatsoever) took the bird (by car) to:
Ede (30 miles away)
Hoek van Holland (70 miles away)
Bochum (at the border with Germany, 120 miles away)
But like a real boomerang, this little boomerang gull keeps returning to the sanctuary too. So this time they had an idea, an employee from Riomare took the bird all he way to Texel, an island from the Dutch coast. The island is more than 90 miles away by car and then they needed to take a ferry to get to the island. They hoped that it would be the last time they set eyes on Boomerang but just one day later the exhausted bird had found his way back to the sanctuary, the open sea and going in a very different direction had not helped at all.
They do not mind having the bird there but the nasty thing about gulls like him is that they have a habit of preying on birds that have just hatched at the sanctuary.
But they have decided to let him remain in his nest and not try and move him again because clearly it does not work.
An expert from Sovon Bird studies in the Netherlands has said to the newspaper that gulls like this one have a real knack for finding their way home. Some gulls are wanderers and just fly where the wind takes them but others are real "homebody's". There is one gull in Katwijk who has made his home near a snack bar (Dutch small restaurant which sells snacks and fries) where he has made a living by feasting on the fries people loose/drop or throw away.