Today a peacock, tomorrow the local garage band...
Who will rid me of this meddlesome peacock?
The birds are, at best, a nuance. Animal control too busy killing dogs to come pick up the bird?
And yes, they are loud and easily mistaken for a woman screaming...
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There’s a peacock wandering around my neighborhood in the mountains visiting our bird feeders. Maybe we’ll soon have some strange-looking wild turkey chicks.
Decades ago, we lived in the Sac. area.
A feral peacock was on the loose and would scream like a woman before it nested for the night and at daylight. Also if it sensed or felt that another critter was after it during the night.
One night its screeching was cut short with a shotgun blast, followed by silence and then cheers.
Peacocks and Peahens are a non native invasive species. They need to be exterminated like rats. They are extremely noisy.
There are a gazillion peacocks in the Bay area (Tampa).
Problem is that when a peacock is fully grown, there are very few predators in the urban environment (coyotes).
Plus, St. Pete and Tampa city protect them.
Only real predator is a car.
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I’ve been doing my own hits on the Canada Geese in our ponds.
The fish are happy not having as much poohpaste in their water.
The other breeds of ducks are returning
And the dock isn’t as slippery.
Shoot. Shovel. Shut up.
I don’t like to just kill off animals. Even when they’re invasive. (Starlings are invasive but I guess people gave up on that.)
I’d endeavor to have the animal taken by animal control or perhaps one of those many refuges or petting zoos or other animal places, even if they are silly tourist traps.
Giving the bird a name does not make it human. Calling it a mascot does not change anything about the bird.
They forgot the “dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth” thing.
Instead of killing the peacock I’d have paid to have it caught and moved to a place that it can live....
I wonder if peacock tastes like chicken?
I remember, years ago, someone several blocks away with peacocks. They do mane quite a noise in the morning.
too bad the same strategy can’t be used for the peacock network...