An animal control officer in New Jersey was called out to deal with a fake parrot.
An animal control officer was called out to deal with a ceramic parrot
Officer Jim Ferry was called out by his uncle Tim Lynch after he spotted what he suspected was an escaped parrot perched on a tree in a wooded area.
Lynch took Ferry to where had spotted the exotic bird only for the pair to discover that it was actually a decorative ceramic parrot.
He told WPVI-TV: "The two of us were walking back there not wanting to scare it away so it flies away, and as we get closer I'm thinking, 'Oh my gosh, this poor thing is dead.'
"We're about two feet away, he's about to throw the net over it, and he goes, 'It's fake.'"
Ferry said: "We have a saying in Animal Control that a sick or injured animal is very easy to catch, and this was probably the easiest catch I've ever had."