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Penguins attempt to nest at sushi takeaway

The birds returned to the shop despite being taken back to the ocean by police in Wellington.

Ollie McAninch by Ollie McAninch
2019-07-17 10:33
in Weird News
In this July 15, 2019, photo, penguins make their way a sushi shop in Wellington, New Zealand. A pair of "vagrant" blue penguins have been forcibly removed after waddling into a New Zealand sushi shop and refusing to leave. (Shawnee Kim via AP)

In this July 15, 2019, photo, penguins make their way a sushi shop in Wellington, New Zealand. A pair of "vagrant" blue penguins have been forcibly removed after waddling into a New Zealand sushi shop and refusing to leave. (Shawnee Kim via AP)

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Two little blue penguins could not stay away from a New Zealand sushi store, returning to nest there even after police had captured them and escorted them back to the ocean.

Wellington police described them as “waddling vagrants”, while the store’s co-owner joked he had no idea that word of his tasty raw fish had reached as far as the subaquatic community.

But Jack Mace, an operations manager for the Department of Conservation, said the birds would have simply thought they had found a snug burrow underneath the store and would not have taken note of what was being sold above them.

“They were within penguin commuting distance of the harbour, and they thought they’d found a nice spot,” he said.

https://www.facebook.com/WellingtonDistrictPolice/posts/1461968880609910

Police received the first call about a penguin loose in the city on Saturday night after somebody reported spotting a grumpy bird under a parked car. Officers said they managed to release it back into the ocean.

Then police starting taking more calls on Monday and found two penguins huddled under the Sushi Bi store near the capital’s busy train station.

“The waddling vagrants were removed from their sushi stand refuge earlier today by Constable John Zhu,” police wrote on their Facebook page.

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“Unsurprisingly, this was not the first report police had received about the fishy birds.”

Within hours, the two penguins were back underneath the shop.

New Zealand Penguins
The creatures had attempted to nest at the sushi takeaway (TVNZ/AP)

Co-owner Long Lin said he was tidying up the storage room when he heard a sound from near the water tank. He walked outside and peered underneath the store and thought he was looking at a pigeon.

“And then I was like, ‘Oh my God, it’s a penguin’,” he said. “I was panicked. I didn’t know what to do.”

He called authorities, but meanwhile the penguins waddled out, so he grabbed them one by one and put them inside the store. He said the second penguin pecked at him several times, leaving red welts on his chest.

“It was a bit wild,” he said.

New Zealand Penguins
The birds hiding under a fridge at Sushi Bi (TVNZ/AP)

Inside the store, the birds strutted about seemingly without a care, to the amazement of worker Shawnee Kim.

“Really cute,” she said.

She said she tried offering them some fresh salmon, but they did not seem interested.

Mr Mace said rangers managed to extract the birds from under the store’s freezer and put them in a special nesting box at the harbour, about 660ft from the store.

He said the penguins have not been seen since and may be out at sea.

He said the population of little blue penguins has rebounded in Wellington thanks to the efforts of people who have removed predators from three islands in the harbour and have helped with other conservation efforts, like building artificial nest boxes.

Little blue penguins typically start looking for nesting spots in July and start laying eggs in August.

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