Video shows moment London Zoo keepers reunited with missing parrots 60 miles away in Cambridgeshire

Video shows the infinitesimal critically endangered parrots that escaped from London Zoo were recovered by zookeepers much than 60 miles distant successful Cambridgeshire.

Video shows the infinitesimal a squad of zookeepers coaxed 1 of the birds down from wherever they had been found, perched precocious successful the canopy of trees successful the colony of Brampton, astir 20 miles north-west of Cambridge.

The footage shows a zookeeper lasting beneath the trees with 1 limb raised successful the air, trying to promote 1 of the macaws to swoop down and onshore connected it.

The ample vertebrate - named Margot - soon flew down to the keeper’s arm, wherever she was fed pumpkin seeds, pecans and walnuts.

The zookeeper was filmed carrying the vertebrate implicit to a cage, asking if she was “super hungry” and commenting that she looked “really good” contempt having been missing successful the chaotic for astir a week.

Another keeper could beryllium perceive cheering arsenic Margot was placed wrong a cage joining Lily, who had already been safely rescued.

A London Zoo spokesperson described the birds arsenic being “in bully information and their accustomed loud, chirpy selves”, though they were “a small tired” from their agelong flight.

A household successful Buckden, a fewer miles from Brampton, had searched online for reports of missing birds, aft spotting the ample parrots with vibrant blue-and-yellow plumage successful trees down their garden.

The birds had already flown disconnected by the clip zookeepers could arrive, but with the assistance of locals they followed the birds to a tract disconnected a nationalist footpath successful Brampton wherever they were yet rescued.

The birds were placed into quarantine astatine London Zoo, earlier being reunited with their parents Popeye and Ollie.

The household marque up the lone 4 blue-throated macaws astatine London Zoo. The birds are deemed “critically endangered” and are connected the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species.

The IUCN estimates determination are betwixt astir 200 and 300 mature blue-throated macaws live today, surviving successful bluish Bolivia.

A London Zoo spokesperson thanked radical “across the country” for helping with its search, and with Lily and Margot’s harmless return.