{"id":1051918,"date":"2026-09-09T00:19:17","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T00:19:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1051918\/"},"modified":"2026-09-09T00:19:17","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T00:19:17","slug":"escaped-emu-safely-captured-by-wildlife-center-volunteers-in-lancaster-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1051918\/","title":{"rendered":"Escaped emu safely captured by wildlife center volunteers in Lancaster County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Escaped emu safely captured by wildlife center volunteers in Lancaster County<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wgal.com\/news-team\/003b0fcd-4def-48bb-ad8b-2204a8b1d7fe\" aria-label=\"Lori Burkholder profile page\" class=\"css-15eikfp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/003b0fcd-4def-48bb-ad8b-2204a8b1d7fe_1654041445.file.png\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" alt=\"Lori Burkholder\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wgal.com\/news-team\/9cc6591f-408c-4bd5-8acc-14e9ea41cf0f\" aria-label=\"Jere Gish profile page\" class=\"css-15eikfp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/9cc6591f-408c-4bd5-8acc-14e9ea41cf0f_1654041177.file.png\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" alt=\"Jere Gish\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/a><strong class=\"css-ncbpmr\">LANCASTER COUNTY, Pa. \u2014<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"0\">Volunteers at Raven Ridge Wildlife Center in Lancaster County successfully captured an escaped emu on September 2 after it fled its pen during a storm.  <\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/9016057a-e2d6-4395-b55e-e0e241c2e07d.jpg\" alt=\"Image no longer available\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" draggable=\"true\" class=\"css-fphibt\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Hearst OwnedRaven Ridge Wildlife Center<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/9016057a-e2d6-4395-b55e-e0e241c2e07d.jpg\" alt=\"Image no longer available\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"css-hr9vxw\"\/><\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"2\">The emu ended up behind the wildlife center, prompting the team to grab nets and large mats to corral the bird.  <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"3\">The team collaborated with the emu&#8217;s owner to ensure the bird remained calm and did not wander into traffic.  <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"4\">After nearly 30 minutes, the volunteers captured the emu using a large net. The bird dropped to the ground and sat quietly.  <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"5\">Three volunteers kept the emu secured in the net and lifted it into a wheelbarrow to transport it to the owner&#8217;s truck.  <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"6\">Raven Ridge Wildlife Center received a certificate of achievement and a stuffed emu as a token of appreciation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Escaped emu safely captured by wildlife center volunteers in Lancaster County LANCASTER COUNTY, Pa. \u2014 Volunteers at Raven&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1051919,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[27],"tags":[421303,421304,126114,50815,159,67,132,68,837],"class_list":["post-1051918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-escaped-emu","tag-fled-its-pen","tag-lancaster-county","tag-raven-ridge-wildlife-center","tag-science","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us","tag-wildlife"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117238220207318340","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1051918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1051918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1051918\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1051919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1051918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1051918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1051918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}