Police called after missing parrot mistaken for distressed child

A woman hearing cries in a Connecticut neighbourhood thought someone was in danger, but it wasn’t a person in distress. At first the woman hearing the voice didn’t know what to think.

She was near a school in this Fairfield neighbourhood when she heard what sounded like a child’s cries for help. “The voice kept saying daddy, daddy, daddy, then said what? Almost as if the child was talking to somebody else,” said Officer James Perez .



The woman called police and then started following the cries. “As she was looking for the source of the voice, she kept following it and brought her to a tree near the school where she looked up and saw it was a parrot,” Perez continued. The voice the woman was hearing was not a child at all, but a bird about 25-feet up in a tree.

“It was saying daddy, daddy, daddy over and over again.” It turns out Ralphie had been missing for days. His owner lives about a mile away. Police rescued Ralphie and took him home. “We’re just happy there were no children that were hurt and that it wasn’t a child at all but in fact a bird just yearning for its father or its daddy, and we got it back to him,” added Perez.

With news video.