Dec 9, 2022
Ruffled Feathers: How Feral Peacocks Divided a Small Town
The birds were beloved. But they also chased garbage trucks, scratched cars, and feasted on vegetable patches
It began with a peahen named Pearl. She was the only female in a trio of peafowl that once freely roamed the small town of Naramata, British Columbia. Her chicks had the bright-blue bodies and metallic-green tail feathers that make the male members of her species iconic, but Pearl’s colouring was rare: her entire body and tail feathers were a shimmering white.
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Illustration by Greer Stothers (greerstothers.com)