\n\t\t\t\t\t\tFamilies in Brevard County are reporting issues with dozens of peacocks on Merritt Island.\u201cWe thought the peacocks were cool at first, but quickly learned that they\u2019re quite the nuisance,” Rick Jones said.In the last two months, neighbors in the Woods at Crooked Mile have brought several concerns to county commissioners over the peafowl population.”They\u2019re very loud. And they\u2019ll go all day and night,” Jones said. “In the middle of the night, they\u2019ll scream, which I think is the biggest problem for people, especially during mating season.\u201dOne neighbor said she’s counted between 40 and 50 peacocks, with new chicks continuing to hatch.\u201cThey poop everywhere, and it\u2019s pretty big poop,” Jones said.These issues were brought up at two commission meetings in May and in July.”Each agency has said it falls outside its authority or referred us to someone else,” Matt Albert said at the last meeting. “Meanwhile, the peafowl population continues to grow.\u201dEven some commissioners have had run-ins with the birds.\u201cI hit one with my car one afternoon, right in front of me. I couldn\u2019t sleep that night, I felt bad. I think it survived,” Commissioner Thad Altman said. “Those are tough animals. dented my car. I get out of my car to find it, and it ran away like wow.\u201dBut the community wants something to be done.”Peacocks are sort of in the middle of a no man\u2019s land legally, but we probably need to give you more information,” Altman said. “We probably need to give you more information, so I\u2019m glad you\u2019re here, and we\u2019ll get on it.\u201d We reached out to Commissioner Thad Altman for follow-up. We also reached out to Commissioner Goodson, who represents that district. A spokesperson from Goodson’s office said they are looking into the situation.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
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Families in Brevard County are reporting issues with dozens of peacocks on Merritt Island.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe thought the peacocks were cool at first, but quickly learned that they\u2019re quite the nuisance,” Rick Jones said.<\/p>\n
In the last two months, neighbors in the Woods at Crooked Mile have brought several concerns to county commissioners over the peafowl population.<\/p>\n
“They\u2019re very loud. And they\u2019ll go all day and night,” Jones said. “In the middle of the night, they\u2019ll scream, which I think is the biggest problem for people, especially during mating season.\u201d<\/p>\n
One neighbor said she’s counted between 40 and 50 peacocks, with new chicks continuing to hatch.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey poop everywhere, and it\u2019s pretty big poop,” Jones said.<\/p>\n
These issues were brought up at two commission meetings in May and in July.<\/p>\n
“Each agency has said it falls outside its authority or referred us to someone else,” Matt Albert said at the last meeting. “Meanwhile, the peafowl population continues to grow.\u201d<\/p>\n
Even some commissioners have had run-ins with the birds.<\/p>\n
\u201cI hit one with my car one afternoon, right in front of me. I couldn\u2019t sleep that night, I felt bad. I think it survived,” Commissioner Thad Altman said. “Those are tough animals. [It] dented my car. I get out of my car to find it, and it ran away like wow.\u201d<\/p>\n
But the community wants something to be done.<\/p>\n
“Peacocks are sort of in the middle of a no man\u2019s land legally, but we probably need to give you more information,” Altman said. “We probably need to give you more information, so I\u2019m glad you\u2019re here, and we\u2019ll get on it.\u201d <\/p>\n
We reached out to Commissioner Thad Altman for follow-up. <\/p>\n
We also reached out to Commissioner Goodson, who represents that district. A spokesperson from Goodson’s office said they are looking into the situation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Families in Brevard County are reporting issues with dozens of peacocks on Merritt Island.\u201cWe thought the peacocks were…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":761871,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[6906,326118,326120,29515,326121,76057,18591,326116,18415,46931,32889,6319,326115,326119,326117,79,201],"class_list":["post-761870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-car","tag-commissioner-goodson","tag-commissioner-thad-altman","tag-county-commissioner","tag-crooked-mile","tag-dozen","tag-issue","tag-merritt-island-neighborhood","tag-middle","tag-more-information","tag-neighbor","tag-night","tag-peacock-population","tag-peafowl-population","tag-rick-jones","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=761870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761870\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/761871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=761870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=761870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=761870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}