{"id":162599,"date":"2025-08-21T01:54:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T01:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/162599\/"},"modified":"2025-08-21T01:54:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T01:54:14","slug":"glendale-peacocks-are-costing-thousands-of-dollars-damaging-property","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/162599\/","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><b>RELATED: <\/b><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\"><b>Dozens of peacocks run wild at Historic Sahuaro Ranch Park in Glendale<\/b><\/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><b>Watch the full story in the video player above.<\/b> <\/p>\n<p>        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abc15.com\/apps\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"100%\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1755644778_619_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":3,"featured_media":162600,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5131],"tags":[5229,5643,1587,1589,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-162599","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-phoenix","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-arizona","10":"tag-az","11":"tag-phoenix","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-united-states-of-america","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","16":"tag-us","17":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115064266014690891","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162599\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}