'McGull Burger': McDonald's Worker Rescues Seagull Trapped Inside Trash Can

The internet has been left delighted after a woman shared a viral video of her rescuing a seagull from a waste container outside a McDonald's.

TikTok user @leonewetton posted the video on Monday where it has received over 314,000 views.

In the video, the cool-headed McDonalds worker reaches into the waste container and pulls out the large bird before throwing him into the air to fly away.

Commenters pointed out how comfortable the customer care worker looked handling the bird and asked if it was a common occurrence.

Leone Wetton, who said she works at McDonald's in Sterling, U.K., responded to the comments explaining that she "used to work for a zoo" and had handled birds a few times before.

Many users rushed to praise the actions of the woman in the video, with one commenter writing: "Well done and thank you for helping the bird!" Another wrote: "Well done guys! Most people wouldn't help."

Despite this praise, many people see seagulls as pests, and during the breeding season they have been reports of the birds attacking humans apparently unprovoked. They can also get pretty huge, with some recorded as over 2 feet long with a wingspan of between 4 and 5 feet.

The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service has highlighted the impact of man-made structures on the lives of birds, stating that development, agriculture and forestry practices are having a huge impact on natural wildlife. Meanwhile, millions of birds are directly killed by human-caused sources such as collisions with man-made structures.

Other commenters shared how impressed they were with the heroic actions in the video, stating that they could never do it themselves.

"Not a chance you would get me anywhere near that thing!!" said one user. "You need a pay rise!" said another.

Others focused on the poster's work at McDonald's, joking about a new "McGull burger" while one user wrote: "In the same uniform she's climbing in the dirty bin and she's gonna make people's food." Wetton then confirmed that she works in customer care and so doesn't have any contact with food at the restaurant.

The video ends as the bird in peril flies away to enjoy the rest of his day, and many commenters reacted to the seagull itself.

"He shouldn't be so greedy should he," wrote one commenter. Another wrote: "Seagulls are never grateful for anything. Sigh."

This comes in the same week as hundreds of birds were filmed falling dead from the sky in shocking footage from Mexico.

The video captured by a local police department in Mexico shows a residential street in Cuauhtémoc city suddenly blanketed in dead birds as they drop from the sky mid-flight.

Newsweek has reached out to Leone Wetton and McDonald's for comment.