Two wandering toucans have been flying about the skies over the East Bay, but one pastor-turned-toucan-wrangler helped capture one of the bright-billed birds.
"I just really love animals," Lauren Michelle Stevens, a pastor at Lafayette United Methodist Church, said Thursday. "I guess that's how I got into this mess."
Since Stevens has had some luck catching stray dogs, and a rescue-attempt at a cockatiel or two, she thought she'd do some research and help out. They also don't really do well in captivity; their constitutions are fragile and often die of an iron storage disease. If kept healthy, however, they can often live for up to 20 years. After making several phone calls, San Francisco Zoo officials dropped off a remote-control cage to a home on Happy Valley Road in Lafayette, where the first toucan was sighted in late September. Stevens and other neighbors developed a pattern of leaving out the fresh fruit for the toucan for more than a month.
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