{"id":376294,"date":"2026-06-26T20:49:26","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T20:49:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/376294\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T20:49:26","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T20:49:26","slug":"missing-macaw-found-safe-in-sanger-returned-to-fresno-chaffee-zoo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/376294\/","title":{"rendered":"Missing macaw found safe in Sanger, returned to Fresno Chaffee Zoo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SANGER, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 A family on a ranch near Riverbend and Ashlan Avenues in Sanger helped reunite an escaped bird with its handlers at the Fresno Chaffee Zoo on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The family found the macaw in a barn on the property around 10:30 a.m. <\/p>\n<p>They heard a strange cry coming from the barn and knew it was not one of their animals. <\/p>\n<p>The bird flew out of the barn and circled a couple of times before landing in a tree.<\/p>\n<p>After realizing the bird might be missing, the family decided to contact the zoo, which reported its <a href=\"https:\/\/kmph.com\/news\/local\/fresno-chaffee-zoo-needs-help-finding-missing-macaw-sarge-after-she-flies-off-course-roeding-park-free-flying-ambassador-birds-ceo-jon-forrest-dohlin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">military macaw named Sarge went missing on Monday<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><p>Missing macaw found safe in Sanger, returned to Fresno Chaffee Zoo (Video: Sanger Family)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>They reached the bird\u2019s handler, described what they were seeing, and stayed on the phone to help track the bird\u2019s location.<\/p>\n<p>The ranch is more than half an hour from the Fresno Chaffee Zoo.<\/p>\n<p>While waiting for the handler to arrive, the family was asked to try to feed the bird. <\/p>\n<p>They picked a peach from their tree, skinned it, and fed Sarge pieces by hand. <\/p>\n<p>When the handler arrived, and Searge heard their voice, she began squawking. <\/p>\n<p>The handler walked up to Sarge and took her back to the zoo. <\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t you love happy endings?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SANGER, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 A family on a ranch near Riverbend and Ashlan Avenues in Sanger helped reunite&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":376295,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-376294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=376294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376294\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/376295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}