{"id":98606,"date":"2025-08-21T05:29:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T05:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/98606\/"},"modified":"2025-08-21T05:29:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T05:29:12","slug":"glendale-peacocks-are-costing-thousands-of-dollars-damaging-property","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/98606\/","title":{"rendered":"Glendale peacocks are costing thousands of dollars, damaging property"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>GLENDALE, AZ \u2014 Earlier this month, the City of Glendale laid out how peacocks are costing the city thousands of dollars in clean-up and repairs.<\/p>\n<p>The flamboyant birds are growing in population and causing more damage as they defecate in public spaces and attack their own reflection by pecking at parked cars.<\/p>\n<p>RELATED: <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.abc15.com\/entertainment\/events\/dozens-of-peacocks-run-wild-at-historic-sahuaro-ranch-park-in-glendale\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dozens of peacocks run wild at Historic Sahuaro Ranch Park in Glendale<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The city also says they&#8217;ve damaged residential solar panels and a city chiller to the tune of more than $50,000 in repairs.<\/p>\n<p>ABC15 reached out to officials about plans to humanely relocate the birds, and we heard from a viewer who enjoys their presence and wants them to be protected. <\/p>\n<p>Watch the full story in the video player above. <\/p>\n<p>        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abc15.com\/apps\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"100%\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/liveplayerbanner1.png\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GLENDALE, AZ \u2014 Earlier this month, the City of Glendale laid out how peacocks are costing the city&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":98607,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[79,201],"class_list":{"0":"post-98606","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98606","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=98606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98606\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}