New York ( CNN ) -- A peacock has flown the coop , stealthily escaping from its home at the Central Park Zoo . The male peacock `` wandered '' away from the Manhattan Zoo on Tuesday , said Wildlife Conservation Society spokeswoman Mary Dixon in a statement . The adventurous bird made its way to a Fifth Avenue apartment building near the park and perched on a third-floor window sill . Zoo officials are encouraging onlookers to avoid following or harassing the peacock and say the runaway poses no danger to the public . `` We are hopeful he will either fly back to the zoo or we will retrieve him nearby , '' Dixon said in the statement . Zoo officials did not comment on how the bird escaped or what type of enclosure he was in . According to the zoo 's website , peafowl are kept in the Tisch Children 's Zoo , described as a `` walk-through wildlife adventure . '' The peacock has drummed up more than 340 followers on its @ CentralPeacock Twitter feed . The Central Park escapee comes on the heels of a peahen -- the female counterpart to a peacock -- fleeing the Bronx Zoo in May and an even more infamous cobra , who disappeared from its Bronx Zoo pen for five days in March .
Bird perches on Fifth Avenue windowsill in New York . Zoo says peacock wo n't hurt anyone , entreats people not to hurt it . Central Park Zoo officials did not comment on how the bird escaped .