“Seventy per cent of the population hate them and want them out. “It’s the most polarizing thing I’ve ever been involved with,” said Mike Maxcy, a retired curator of birds for the Los Angeles Zoo, to the Post.
Some residents, frustrated by the current lack of relocation services, have taken drastic steps to curb the growing peacock population: trying to hit peacocks with their cars, shoot them with pellet guns, or poison them. Male peacocks also peck at parked cars, sometimes mistaking their reflection for a rival to potential, romantic mates. Others, however, detest the feral birds, who, in addition to their loud mating cries, are known to tear up gardens and destroy window shingles. Peacock devotees often feed the birds, defying anti-feeding mandates in many municipalities. Some residents enjoy the presence of the peacocks. Problems with peacocks have been polarizing, dividing many communities across Pasadena, with one resident describing the issue as “more divisive than national politics”. And that is probably the start of my complaints,” Kathleen Tuttle, 68, an East Pasadena resident, told the Post. They sound like babies being tortured through a microphone, a very large microphone. In addition to their physical presence, the peacocks have also been a disturbance because of their incessant squawking, sometimes occurring in the early morning and late into the night. In some places, it’s almost impossible to capture every single one of them,” Dennis Fett, co-founder and director of the Peacock Information Center, told Slate. It encroached on their territory, and basically the peacocks stayed in the trees – generations of them. “Urban sprawl caused the problem in southern California.
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