Their feathery displays adorn and agitate a swath of the San Gabriel Valley, but peacocks may soon face the wrath of the Board of Supervisors who are exploring whether to ban residents from feeding the birds.
Florida has its Burmese pythons, Louisiana has its beaver-like nutria, and Rancho Palos Verdes has its peacocks.A peahen and her peachicks make their way on the driveway of a home on Yorkshire Road in Pasadena.Historian Sandy Snider, who worked at the Los Angeles County Arboretum and Botanic Garden in Arcadia for 35 years, said that in researching the origins of Baldwin’s peafowl, she found a few California newspapers advertising peafowl for sale in the late 1800s in Marysville and other towns.
“I will have messages on my machine saying, ‘Oh, could you guys can please get this peacock? It’s on Huntington Drive and Colorado,’” said Robin Sease, the arboretum’s director of visitor experience. “Unfortunately, we do not do that. They’re wild animals.” “I bet there’s still peacocks around the hospital,” Valenzuela said. “Those beautiful birds were never designed to live in an urban environment because they are so intrusive, and they are hunters and tend to claw. But they are beautiful.”The fowl are held in such high esteem that they became the inspiration for the new mascot for the Downtown Arcadia Improvement Assn. The mascot’s name: Perdy Peacock.
“I think that the peacocks have their home, and we should coexist,” Choi said. “I think it’s a great opportunity for all of us to learn how to live with each other.… I mean, how many communities can say they have peacocks running around?”
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