Bird call! Cops chase down Hawk that crashed into Parsippany home

PARSIPPANY — Some things, police said in a Facebook post Friday, "you just do not get trained in during the police academy."

What's the official police code for "hawk through a sunroom," anyway?

Friday morning, Detective Patrick McCarthy, along with Patrol Officers Matthew McAuliffe, Joseph Chmura and Carlos Silva, responded to a house on Wood Glen Way and were "greeted by a Red-tailed Hawk, who decided to fly through a window on a sunroom and latch onto a window screen," police wrote.

McAuliffe distracted the hawk with his "magic wand" from outside the room while animal control officer Amy Warnock was able to safely pick up the hawk, police said.

After the officers made sure the hawk was not injured, it was released, police said.

The hawk quickly took up a perch nearby and then flew away.

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