A female from Liverpool’s hunt for her missing African Grey parrot has gone viral.

The drama began on Sunday (19 April) as Sandra Hannah was sitting in her garden, with the practically two-year-old parrot Chanel running away from her cage by means of the water dish gateway.

Speaking to the Daily Mail, 40-year-old Sandra stated: “We were sitting in the garden, all the doors were locked in the cage yet her water bowl entrance was open.

“My neighbor started a drill going and also she just bolted out the water bowl gate. As well as I simply thought: what should I do? I assumed I would share it on Facebook Live.”

The subsequent stream was seen by 40,000 individuals, with an emotional Sandra calling out in the street for her beloved Chanel and also advocating locals to aid discover the African Grey – that she insisted was friendly regardless of her regular swearing.

The mum-of-four barely captured a wink of sleep that night, with the household ‘devastated’ by the parrot’s disappearance.

She said: “We all wept all evening. We were all stating a petition, please come home Chanel. We were simply all ravaged.

“As quickly as the light shown up we were full blast on the canal looking.”

Fortunately however, the household were able to call off the search after somebody contacted us to state they ‘d located Chanel around two miles from their house.

Sandra stated: “On Facebook, a person stated: ‘I discovered your parrot’. She was knocking on a window in Seaforth saying ‘hello there, hi, hello’. I didn’t know the individual, I really did not also have her on Facebook.”

Indeed, if it had not been for Facebook – as well as the appeal of her live stream – Sandra knows she may never have actually discovered Chanel, whose return has actually made her whole again after ‘the most awful day of her life’.

She claimed: “If it had not been for Facebook I don’t think I would certainly have found her. It was the worst day of my life, the worst.

“The response of all social media, it just thawed my heart. That lots of people got included and also they located my parrot essentially. I just wish to thank the entire globe.”