Residents Crying Foul…

By Corey • December 30, 2009 • 2 comments

…over Common Peafowl. Seems that Longboat Key, Florida, has way too many of the gorgeous gregarious birds and has to continually cull the flock. And Longboat Key isn’t the only community in the U.S. with a peafowl problem: apparently California and Texas locations have had issues as well. So introducing non-native birds because they are pretty might not be the best idea? Who would’ve thunk it?

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Corey

Corey is a New Yorker who has lived most of his life upstate but has spent the last three years in Queens. He's only been birding since 2005 but has garnered a respectable life list by birding whenever he wasn't working as a union representative or spending time with his family. He lives in Forest Hills with Daisy, their son, Desmond Shearwater, and their two indoor cats, Hunter and B.B.

2 Responses to “Residents Crying Foul…”

tai haku Dec 30th, 2009 at 5:36 pm
No worries, the feral Florida pythons will soon eat the feral Florida peacocks. It’s like that episode of the Simpsons; soon we’ll be up to the Gorillas.
lafemme Jan 3rd, 2010 at 5:51 am
tai haku has a point. those annoyed with said peacocks should capture a burmese python from their yards and feed them with live peacocks.