Wildlife experts will continue to keep a careful eye on a gull injured while trying to eat a chicken nugget after tests — and consultation with Dr. Jeff Baier of Animal Planet’s “Rocky Mountain Vet” — failed to show why the bird isn’t eating well.

The ring-billed gull was injured when it crashed into a window in Lakewood. Luckily for the gull — now named Nugget — that window belonged to Viqui Westenhaver, who works at the Birds of Prey Foundation.

She took the bird to the foundation and it later was transferred to the Greenwood Wildlife Rehabilitation Center. But the gull wasn’t eating properly, so it was taken to Denver for some medical exams with Baier.

The gull’s lead poisoning test was negative, but his white cell count was slightly elevated, so the staff at Greenwood Wildlife put Nugget on a course of antibiotics and continue to keep the bird under observation, said Jenny Bryant with Greenwood Wildlife.

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