wreaked havoc<\/a> on the local ecosystem by challenging cats and pigeons that stray into his territory.<\/p>\nDespite the publicity, local Christine Mercer says no one has come forward to claim him, and she fears he may be stuck outside for the cold winter months ahead.<\/p>\n
Residents have tried various tactics to find him a home, including approaching wildlife groups, which declined to help as he is not a native bird. <\/p>\n
“He’s been here since May and if he stays another three months it starts to get really cold,” Ms Mercer said. “We don’t know what peacocks do in the winter.”<\/p>\n
In the meantime, neighbours have set up a group chat to alert each other to Percy’s movements.<\/p>\n
He is known to have pecked on their doors and windows in what are deemed to be attempts to find food.<\/p>\n
‘Mixed blessings’<\/p>\n
“He’s still around,” Ms Mercer said. “We keep thinking he might disappear but then he’s back again. <\/p>\n
“No one has come forward to claim him and he’s got no ring on his leg, so we can’t identify where he may have come from.<\/p>\n
“We’ve sort of got mixed blessings here. Some are fond of him, some want to see the back of him.”<\/p>\n
Ms Mercer says two more peacocks have since been spotted nearby, sparking rumours there may be a roost close at hand.<\/p>\n
“Whether or not they are breeding in the wild somewhere and coming into the town, we just don’t know. They’ll be spreading all over Wiltshire soon,” she laughed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Angela Newberry Percy the peacock has been known to tap on doors and windows in an attempt to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":76261,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[49,48,66,323],"class_list":{"0":"post-76260","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-science","11":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76260\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Angela Newberry<\/p>\n