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Description: Supermarket staff have put up barriers and cordoned off eight parking spaces - to protect a seagull.<br/><br/>The gull is sitting on eggs in a nest it built at the base of a tree in the Morrisons car park in Liskeard, Cornwall. <br/><br/>The gull is now surrounded by barriers and staff have cordoned off eight car parking spaces to protect it.<br/><br/>The supermarket staff contacted the RSPCA for advice and were told to seal off space for the bird so they would not be disturbed.<br/><br/>All wild birds, their eggs and nests are protected by law.<br/><br/>It is an offence to damage or destroy a wild bird’s nest while it is being used or built.<br/><br/>The RSPCA added the gull could scare or hurt customers if distressed.<br/><br/>A spokesperson for Morrisons said staff contacted the RSPCA for advice and were told to cordon off space so the bird would not be disturbed.