A chicken playing chicken? That's what had been happening on a busy Glendale, California street where a black hen dodged cars, captors and coyotes for three months.

Officials say the bird had been darting into traffic outside Glendale Community College since it was first reported Nov. 20. The chicken has drawn a growing crowd of photographers and journalists as animal control officers struggled to catch it.

A spokeswoman for the Pasadena Humane Society, which handles animal control in Glendale, said the bird would either run out into traffic or fly into a tree when officers approached. Hillary Gatlin said a humane trap did not work because the chicken didn't weigh enough to trigger it or wasn't interested in the feed used as bait.

But the standoff ended peacefully earlier this spring. The black hen now has a new home in Simi Valley, after being captured in a fishing net by a mom and son rescue team.

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