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Two peacocks remain at large after mass escape from Bronx Zoo as officials warn citizens not to approach the birds known to bite and draw blood
The frantic search for peacocks, which are primarily known as peafowl, in New York City continues after seven of the birds managed to escape from the Bronx Zoo.
A total of seven peafowl from escaped the park on Memorial Day, and two of them still missing, NBC New York reported.
Zoo officials told the news outlet that its peafowl occasionally stray from their park enclosure but usually return on their own.
One of the two missing peafowl was spotted high up in a tree just before 3 pm yesterday on 2385 Barker Avenue in the Bronx.
Warning have since been issued urging citizens not to approach the birds as they can aggressively attack humans if they feel threatened.
Seven peafowl escaped from the Bronx Zoo on Memorial Day and they were spotted by witnesses at Morris Park train station later that day
Two of the peafowl that escaped their habitat in the Bronx Zoo are still missing despite one of them being spotted in a tree yesterday afternoon
Multiple individuals took pictures and videos of the peafowl after they spotted them in Morris Park on Memorial Day.
'I've never seen anything like this the entire time I've lived in the Bronx,' eyewitness Harry Phillips told ABC 7.
All seven peafowl were first spotted at the Morris Park subway station on Monday morning on Paulding Avenue at 9:30 am.
Phillips, who noticed the peafowl while he was driving, pulled over to help guide the birds to the sidewalk before calling the authorities.
Officers responded to the morning phone call, and officials at the Bronx Zoo also arrived at the scene sometime afterward.
'It was the zoo, the city, the NYPD, our neighbors who let the NYPD into their yards and, you know, everybody trying to keep an eye on them and make sure they're safe,' said Phillips.
The adventure for five of the seven peafowl ended in Dany Martinez's backyard despite one of them putting up a fight.
'There's one that like really gave them a lot of trouble like going from rooftop to rooftop,' Martinez told ABC 7.
At least one witness called the authorities after they discovered one of the peafowl around 2385 Barker Avenue in the Bronx
Five of the peafowl were caught in Dany Martinez's backyard and one of them put up a fight in front of Bronx Zoo officials and the NYPD
This incident comes one year after another rogue peafowl named Raul escaped the Bronx Zoo and allegedly attacked a man known only as Mike.
'I said there go a peacock, that's when we all started filming it. Then it started running up the hill towards traffic,' Mike said.
Mike then claimed that Raul attacked him and flew into a tree after he attempted to guide him away from traffic.
The NYPD and FDNY attempted to catch Raul in the 14 hours he was gone, but the peacock flew back to the Bronx Zoo before they could do so.
There are currently more than 100 peafowl that roam around the Bronx Zoo, and park officials request that its guests do not touch or chase after the birds
According to PBS, female peafowl, known as peahen,' are 35 to 43 inches long with a wing span of 31 to 51 inches.
Males, also known as peacocks, are usually 70 to 98 inches long, with a train length of about 55 to 63 inches.
These colorful birds are omnivores, and they eat insects, plants and other small creatures.
Their usual habitats are lowland forests, farms and agricultural fields in tropical and dry habitats.
However, the peafowl in the Bronx Zoo roam around the grounds, and park officials request on their website that guests not feed, touch or chase any of the animals, which are also occasionally found in cities and parks searching for food, that do so.
Daily Mail has reached out to the Bronx Zoo for comment.