Peacock invade residential neighborhood

Two escaped from a nearby yard and started to reproduce.

He may be the long holdout, or may be one of the last two peacocks roaming this neighborhood. Nobody's bothered him I've seen, and they are pretty to look at, they don't cause any problems. That depends who you talk to.

Rimen Prody has lived in this neighborhood on Vancouver city for 34 years. They're kind of nuisance,I mean, can you imagine somebody get on top of the hood of your car? And they got claws like this. And sometimes sitting on cars like this. There were more than half a dozen peacocks roaming this neighborhood back in May. The first two somehow got free from Cory Pennington's property and started to reproduce. Eventually we got the original two that they had and they had some babies. We didn't get all babies. That’s what you see now.

The large bird can be unpredictable. The Organ Zoo stopped letting peacocks roaming its ground last May after one attacked a child in the zoo. Protect county Animal Control says wildlife contractor has captured and relocated all but one maybe two of the peacocks during the past few months. It’s also fined Pennington $200 for letting the first birds get loose.

We will continue to try to locate this animal and continue to try to encourage the wildlife trappers to get for relocation. But it’s never been the priority, because it hasn't really harmed anybody.