A wild parrot seemingly wore a sheepish grin after San Francisco firefighters rescued the bird from a perilous predicament.<\/p>\n
One of the famed \u201cwild parrots of Telegraph Hill\u201d \u2014 the colorful birds<\/a> known to flock in and around the iconic San Francisco neighborhood <\/a>\u2014 got its head stuck between glass on a third-floor balcony that was under construction, the Fire Department said Monday.<\/p>\n A colorful parrot flashes a grin after being wrapped in a towel. Animal Care & Control San Francisco<\/p>\n A firefighter was forced to climb onto the occupied home\u2019s roof, lowering a ladder to the balcony in order to gingerly slide the green bird\u2019s head free before wrapping it in a towel. <\/p>\n A firefighter rescued the wayward bird from a balcony in San Francisco. Animal Care & Control San Francisco<\/p>\n A fire officer carefully rescued the bird before releasing it. Animal Care & Control San Francisco<\/p>\n \u201cWhen on the balcony, they carefully slid the bird up to free it. They wrapped the bird in a towel and handed it off to Officer Mullen, who checked out the bird,\u201d the department shared on social media.<\/p>\n The green wild parrot had its head stuck between glass on a third-floor balcony. Animal Care & Control San Francisco<\/p>\n The occupied San Francisco home was under construction. Animal Care & Control San Francisco<\/p>\n \u201cThankfully they were fine: their wings, legs and neck were all ok, so Officer Mullen released the bird.\u201d<\/p>\n The bird was thankfully \u201cfine.\u201d Animal Care & Control San Francisco<\/p>\n The parrot\u2019s feathered friends squawked in celebration after he flew to join them in a tree nearby, Animal Care and Control reported. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A wild parrot seemingly wore a sheepish grin after San Francisco firefighters rescued the bird from a perilous…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":450304,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[28148,7798,7,266,116837,101,103,102,104,106,105,3586],"class_list":["post-450303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-animal-rescue","tag-birds","tag-california","tag-northern-california","tag-parrots","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450303","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=450303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450303\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/450304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=450303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=450303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=450303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}