His flight of freedom is over! On Friday, Bobby Horvath,who runs the group Wildlife In Need of Rescue and Rehabilitation, captured a peacock that had eluded cops and delighted residents for more than a week, after it escaped from a school in Queens.
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Bird’s eye view: The peacock is spotted on a rooftop near Jewel Avenue and Main Street in Kew Gardens, Queens, on Aug. 20.
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Making himself right at home: The wayward peacock looks quite comfortable on this rooftop on Aug. 21, a day after he was spotted.
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Going green: The peacock gets into some foliage while on the loose on Aug. 21. Police were later called in to try and catch bird.
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Later Aug. 21: The NYPD’s Emergency Service Unit, which handles barricaded perps and water rescues as well as animal control, tries and fails to trap the freedom-loving fowl with a blanket and a garbage can near 147th street and Jewel Ave in Kew Gardens, Queens.
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The bird escapes this atempt to capture it with a blanket.
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On the ‘noose’: A cop tries and fails to corral the fowl in a driveway.
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He wins this round: Police were forced to give up their hunt for the bird, after an afternoon of trying to cage the wily beast.
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Welcome to the neighborhood: The escaped peacock gets a few crumbs from a local resident on Aug. 22, a day after the cops’ failed attempt to capture it.
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He likes the high life: The peacock takes wing from a rooftop.
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I’m walkin’ here! The bird struts in the middle of the street on Aug. 22.
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Hmm, not bad brickwork … The peacock checks out a house in Kew Gardens, Queens, on Aug. 27.
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Peacock’s last location is top of the roof of house,147-16,68DR Kew Gardens Hills.
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Neighborly: A car stops to let the peacock pass on Aug. 27.
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Get used to it: A defiant-looking peacock is seen Aug. 27.
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Now he’s just taunting: The peacock brazenly saunters down a Kew Gardens sidewalk on Aug. 27.
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On the hunt: Animal Care & Control official Michael Pastore chases after the Kew Gardens peacock Friday, Aug. 31.
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Nice try! Animal Control officers swing and miss while trying to catch the peacock again in a backyard of a house in 68th Drive & 147th Street on Aug. 31.
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Gotcha! Bobby Horvath, left, captures the peacock in a net Aug. 31, bringing his roaming days to an end.
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One in the hand: Bobby Horvath of the group Wildlife In Need of Rescue and Rehabilitation holds the captured peacock.
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Bird caged: The peacock is finally behind bars after almost two weeks of chasing, en route to his home at John Bowne HS agricultural farm.
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Sigh … the peacock can only dream of his days on the lam, after he was brought back to the John Bowne HS agricultural farm Aug. 31,almost two weeks after his escape.
Riyad Hasan
