Fred The Cop Attacking Pigeon Captured By Opera Singer!

<--- Here's Fred, plotting his attack, Muah, ha ha!




Manhattan’s own angry bird has been caged.

Fred the pigeon, whose hobby was dive-bombing cops and dropping unwanted gifts on tourists at the 9/11 Memorial, has been taken in by an opera singer who is teaching him to change his tune and fly right.

Jennifer Dudley, a mezzo-soprano who has worked at the Metropolitan and City operas and moonlights as a wildlife rehabilitator, grabbed Fred last week after realizing he was suffering from the early stages of a serious bird disease.

Dudley was moved to act after reading earlier this month in The Post that Fred had taken up residence on a metal fence surrounding the plaza, where he would sit and plot his attacks.

But notwithstanding his notoriety, Dudley said, “people loved him.”

Still, she added, “If you get your fingers too close to his mouth, he’ll peck at you to let you know he’s pissed off.”

New Yorkers can relate to him, she said: “He’s got a bit of chutzpah.”

For now, he’s the guest of another rehabilitator, and hopefully will live out his life as someone’s pet.

Dudley doesn’t plan to release him back into the urban jungle, because “he doesn’t know how to be a New York pigeon.”

She spent 10 days trying to catch him — and always dressed for the occasion.

“I wore a red hat every time because I wanted him to associate the red hat — and the seeds I was throwing out to him — with me,” she said.

“He was getting more and more depressed-looking, and I said to myself, ‘He’s not feeling well.’ ”

She finally got lucky Tuesday night.

“I took him home in a cab, and he was extraordinarily friendly,” she said. “He insisted on perching either on my hand, shoulder or head.”

While he was free, Fred had a love-hate relationship with the cops — depending on the cop.

Some fed Fred, but others would tease him.

Reports of the teasing ruffled the feathers of supervisors — and cops were warned to be more “professional.”

Authorities even looked at surveillance videos to determine which cops were involved, but no one has been disciplined so far.

Fred was named after a cockatoo who was the pet of “Baretta,” the fictional detective in a 1970s TV drama starring Robert Blake.

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