Exotic Birds Escape Providence Zoo, Now Staff Need Your Help

It's a case of the missing birds and one local zoo needs your help to find them.

A pair of blue-throated piping guans managed to escape from Roger Williams Park Zoo recently and staff believe they could still be in the surrounding park.

According to the zoo's recent Facebook post, the birds were last spotted "taking in the beauty of Roger Williams Park from treetop" and have been missing for at least 24 hours, based on the time of their posting.

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How Did the Piping Guans Escape Roger Williams Park Zoo?

It is unclear exactly when or how the two exotic birds got free from the zoo. The piping guans are some of the birds featured in the zoo's Faces of the Rainforest exhibit, where several of the animals roam free inside the glass-walled building.

Presumably these birds managed to fly or walk out of the building at some point over the weekend and traveled outside the zoo grounds on their own.

Zoo staff are of course searching the area for their blue-throated piping guans, which are native to parts of South America. They typically live in forested areas and are usually found just sitting in the treetops.

In the zoo's Facebook post, commenters reported seeing these chicken-sized birds in Warwick and Cumberland, so they could have traveled pretty far at this point.

If you happen to find one sitting in a treetop near you, the zoo asks that you call 401-785-3510 or email info@rwpzoo.org to report your sighting.

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