An unidentified woman was near the Holland Hill School, in Connecticut around 5 p.m. when she told police that she heard someone screaming.

"The voice kept saying 'daddy,' 'daddy,' 'daddy,' then said 'what'," said Fairfield police Lt James Perez. "Almost as if the child was talking to someone else."

The woman began searching for the person, who she believed was a child in distress.

"As she was looking for the source of the voice, she kept following it and brought her to a tree near the school where she looked up and saw it was a parrot," Perez said.

Officials then called animal control and the the fire department to get the parrot out of the tree.

The parrot had been reported missing by its owner, Christopher Gerbasi, of Fairfield, and had been gone for days. The woman located the bird about a mile from his home.