GARDEN CITY (WWJ) - Residents in one Garden City neighborhood are all a-flutter about stunning a new neighbor.
A peacock — identified as an Indian Peacock — has been spotted making his home in the area of John Hauk and Hubbard, between Venoy and Merriman, south of Ford Road.
Garden City resident Shantavia Clay told WWJ's Mike Campbell that she hasn’t personally seen the bird, but her son has.
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"It's a strange place for a peacock to be" she laughed. Clay said she has never seen one up close outside of a zoo or park.
Indian peacocks, a type of peafowl from India and the surrounding subcontinent, is not native to the U.S., although small pockets of wild birds are found around the country.
"In its native range, the Indian peafowl can typically be found inhabiting the undergrowth in open forest and woodland, usually near a river or stream," the Binder Zoo in Battle Creek described. "The Indian peafowl is also known to occur in farmland, villages, and increasingly, more urban areas."
While no one is sure where the the Garden City peacock came from, it is theorized that much of the nation's wild peafowl escaped from zoos or their owner's property.
Indian peacocks are known for their stunning blue and green plumage that fans out in a colorful display — peahens, the female counterpart — is brown with a tail that does not fan out.
Clay told WWJ's Mike Campbell that until somebody takes the peacock somewhere safer, she and her Garden City neighbors will keep welcoming the bird.
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