EARLIER THIS WEEK, a seagull in Wales was scavenging around outside a factory in Wales when HE managed to fall into a vat of chicken tikka masala.

Of course, after falling into the curry, he turned bright orange hit the headlines

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The Guardian reports that he was rescued and taken to the Vale wildlife hospital in Gloucestershire.

They uploaded his story to their Facebook page, and an orange internet hero was born

Not only that, but he smelled amazing – according to the vet that cleaned him up:

He really surprised everyone here – we had never seen anything like it before. He had fallen into a waste vat of curry that was outside, it was chicken tikka masala. The thing that shocked us the most was the smell. He smelled amazing, he really smelled good.

He was then nicknamed

And there was talk that this was an origin story of the next Marvel installment

He represents us all

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“Spice gull” was just a perfect pun

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The seagull will be released back into the wild in the coming weeks, after he is “transferred to an outside aviary to re-waterproof his feathers.”

The birdplay has been spectacular

Truly, today belongs to the curry seagull.

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