A bird has been flown back to the Caribbean after flying 5,000 miles to the UK.
Bird's 5,000 mile journey
The red-footed booby, named Norman, was first discovered by a local resident in Hastings, East Sussex in September looking underweight and dehydrated.
The rare bird was then taken in to the care of the RSPCA who built his strength back by feeding him sprats and keeping him under heat to ward off the cold, before putting him on a 12-hour flight from Heathrow airport back to his home of Cayman Islands in the Caribbean on Thursday (15.12.16).
Mallydams wildlife rehabilitation team manager Richard Thompson told the Metro newspaper: ''It is just fantastic to see Norman make his way home after the team here have worked so hard nursing him back to health and full strength.
'We are used to dealing with native seabirds here - like gulls and terns - but he is the first booby bird we have ever seen here at the RSPCA and the UK. It is amazing to think we've had a hand in his care.''