{"id":380147,"date":"2026-08-24T23:26:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T23:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/380147\/"},"modified":"2026-08-24T23:26:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T23:26:10","slug":"casselberry-residents-say-peacocks-have-become-a-nuisance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/380147\/","title":{"rendered":"Casselberry residents say peacocks have become a nuisance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CASSELBERRY, Fla. \u2014 Residents in a Casselberry neighborhood say a growing population of peacocks has become a problem they can no longer ignore, with the birds damaging property, making noise and leaving droppings in yards and streets.<\/p>\n<p>Tami Max says the peacocks have become a regular presence in the Lost Lake subdivision, where she has lived for about four years.<\/p>\n<p>She says the birds turn up throughout the neighborhood and have even gotten trapped inside her pool enclosure.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just happened to look to my left, and I saw that a peacock had gotten trapped in our pool enclosure here. And that the screen enclosure up here was ripped,\u201d Max said.<\/p>\n<p>Max says the problem has happened multiple times, with repairs costing hundreds of dollars each time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe just can\u2019t endure the cost to the property. Several of my neighbors and I have endured hundreds, if not thousands dollars of damage,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Max also says the peacocks are damaging parked vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>She says the male birds peck at the paint, leaving deep marks that require repairs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou can see this really deep pit right here. And this one right here, where some sanding is going to need to take place, before I repaint or wrap it,\u201d Max said.<\/p>\n<p>But residents say their options are limited because Casselberry has a 2017 <a href=\"https:\/\/library.municode.com\/search?stateId=9&amp;clientId=1557&amp;searchText=bird%20sanctuary&amp;searchMode=CLIENTMODE&amp;contentTypeId=CODES\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ordinance protecting the city\u2019s peafowl<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The ordinance makes it unlawful to take, trap, hunt, harm, kill or otherwise interfere with the birds.<\/p>\n<p>Casselberry City Manager Randy Newlon said the ordinance was created after residents asked the city to protect the peacocks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo, about nine years ago, the ordinance was adopted to create a bird sanctuary at the request of the majority of the residents where they live to protect the peacocks,\u201d Newlon said.<\/p>\n<p>Max and other residents planned to bring their concerns to city commissioners Monday evening, hoping the city can find a way to address the damage while keeping the birds safe.<\/p>\n<p>Casselberry is not the only Central Florida community dealing with complaints about peacocks.<\/p>\n<p>Orlando\u2019s Wadeview Park has also faced a similar debate between residents who enjoy the birds and those who say they have become a nuisance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CASSELBERRY, Fla. \u2014 Residents in a Casselberry neighborhood say a growing population of peacocks has become a problem&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":380148,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[1684,767,770,115,139,141,140,11881,1014],"class_list":["post-380147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-animals","tag-app-community","tag-community-news","tag-news","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-randy-rauch","tag-seminole-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=380147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380147\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/380148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}