LONDON -- An emu is on the run near Oxford.
Thames Valley Police alerted Twitter to the news that the bird had disappeared from the Wheatley area east of the city Tuesday afternoon, but no-one has apprehended it to date.
"EMU missing from the Wheatley Area, any sightings please cal 101," they wrote, adding the hashtag #RodHull (a name check for the comedian who used to work with an emu puppet on TV in the '70s and '80s).
EMU Missing from the Wheatley Area, any sightings please cal 101 #RodHull PCSO Dollery pic.twitter.com/GTLNg0vSDW— TVPSouth Oxon & VOWH (@tvpsouthandvale) August 18, 2015
A day later, and they still hadn't located the errant emu. This time they added a description and told us about the bird's sex and age.
EMU UPDATE - Still missing from nr Thame she's a young EMU 5 months old with a distinctive white mark on her beak call 101 #6795 DOLLERY— TVPSouth Oxon & VOWH (@tvpsouthandvale) August 19, 2015
This isn't the first time an emu, which is the second largest living bird after the ostrich, has caused havoc on the streets of Britain.
Back in May, another creature went for a stroll in Devon before being captured and returned. More recently, another wandering emu was reunited with its owner in Cambridgeshire after disappearing on Saturday.