David Barrett, who runs the Manhattan Bird Alert Twitter account received a "birding emergency" notification that there was a mother duck and her dozen ducklings stuck on the streets near East 69th Street and Lexington Avenue for at least a couple of days.
The officers herded the ducklings into a carrier but failed to persuade the mother to join them in a police cruiser.
Instead, the two cops pursued what Barrett called a "brilliant" alternative: walking the carrier to Central Park on foot, allowing the mother to follow behind, guided by her ducklings' peeps.
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