Peacocks Are at Large in a Nebraska Town, and the Law’s on Their Side

"They hang out, they're peeping Toms and look in our windows. This is rare peacocks come over, just hangout and live."
The showy, noisy feral birds have lived on Grand Island’s outskirts for years—no big deal for some residents, foul to others—and efforts to rein them in have failed so far
GRAND ISLAND, Neb.—It isn’t hard to find the flock of feral peacocks living on Eldorado Street. What’s hard is figuring out what to do with them.

For years, an ostentation of peacocks has lived among houses, yards and fields on the outskirts of this city of about 50,000 people. For many residents, they are no big deal and even a welcome exotic counterpoint to surrounding corn fields.