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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRoaming peacocks plague California city: 'They're a nuisance, but they're beautiful'
Multiplying birds have become an issue in the city of Tracy, wailing loudly and unleashing poop like soft serve. Now residents want to relocate themhttps://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/nov/30/peacocks-plague-california-city-tracy-birds-relocate
Dozens of feral peacocks and peahens are roaming the streets and leaping from the rooftops of Tracy, California. They claw at shingles and defecate on porches. Their calls, especially in mating season, echo through the community. They have no fear of pets nor people.
Errant peafowl have milled around the citys Redbridge neighborhood for years some believe they originally came from a now-defunct nearby dairy farm but the numbers have increased as the birds keep multiplying. Now theyre everywhere, and ruffling some residents feathers.
Ill have like eight of them sitting on my porch railing pooping, said Stephanie Voress, proprietor of the Redbridge General Store. Theyre a nuisance, but theyre beautiful.
In recent weeks, some community members decided that something had to be done. The homeowners association of Redbridge, a gated community, has proposed to humanely relocate about 30 to 40 peafowl through a deal with the city and a contract with Bay Area Wildlife Services.
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Roaming peacocks plague California city: 'They're a nuisance, but they're beautiful' (Original Post)
Celerity
Dec 2021
OP
Gorgeous animals that make up for it with the shrillest sounds I've heard since Sean Spicer
Torchlight
Dec 2021
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XanaDUer2
(10,667 posts)1. Life will find a way nt
maxsolomon
(33,345 posts)2. In the 90s, Seattle had large populations of resident Canada Geese
Still have some, but not like back then. You couldn't use a public beach.
So, after trying (and failing) harassment with dogs, and coddling their eggs in spring, they herded them in to a semi trailer and gassed them. Lots of rending of garments, but it solved the problem - for a few years at least.
Peacocks are an introduced, invasive species. Someone might want to think about eating them.
SoCalNative
(4,613 posts)4. Unfortunately in some places in CA they're protected
so you can't touch them.
Klaralven
(7,510 posts)5. Baroque Roasted Peacock with Claret Sauce
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)3. Back in the 50s, lots of farms in rural Georgia had peacocks running around.
Torchlight
(3,337 posts)6. Gorgeous animals that make up for it with the shrillest sounds I've heard since Sean Spicer
But to their credit, I never knew of a peacock that hid in bushes from White House reporters.
chowder66
(9,070 posts)7. You should hear what the Peacocks have to say about humans. nt