But on one November night in Lunenburg County, N.S., their two-legged quarry wasn’t a man, it was a bird — a big bird. Nicholas Barz was one of the Lunenburg District RCMP officers dispatched to look for an emu wandering around a back road at night. "They're pretty tall and they have pretty long claws and quite the beak on them so I was being pretty cautious. The officer said he tried herding the bird with his baton, but the emu had other ideas and took off into the woods. “I still haven't found out the correct way to wrangle an emu but maybe next time I'll have more experience," Barz said.

Source: CBC News February 20, 2026 06:38 UTC