A man has come under fire after a video of him grabbing a seagull who was trying to eat his chips went viral.
After a night out on the town, Taylor, from New Zealand, decided to pick up some food in a bid to cure the inevitable hangover.
As he sat down to enjoy the tasty looking McDonald's, he was surrounded by seagulls, and somehow his quick reflexes saw him grab one of the birds before it got to his food.
He captured the moment and posted it to TikTok, where he's known as @taylorstictac, thinking it was pretty funny at the time, and it quickly racked up more than 22.4 million views.
But the bird that he grabbed is actually protected, with only around 500,000 of the species estimated to live in the country.
The video quickly caught the attention of New Zealand's Department of Conservation - and it isn't happy.
Department of Conservation Otago operations manager Annie Wallace told the Otago Daily News how disappointed she was that the video went viral.
She said: "Tarapunga are protected under the Wildlife Act, meaning it is illegal to disturb, harass or kill them. Those who do so can face fines or imprisonment."
Ms Wallace has warned people against the behaviour, adding: "It is stressful for the animal whenever someone catches and holds our native birds like this."
She also said that you shouldn't feed them - especially fast food.
"Our birds did not evolve eating human food. They are not used to it and it can make them sick."
Taylor later posted an apology video where he explained that he didn't mean to catch the seagull, especially since he's actually quite scared of them.
"They all started kind of dive-bombing me trying to get my chips. One started coming towards my head so I ducked and put my hand up. I just grabbed it," he said.
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