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He may be the lone holdout, or may be one of the last two peacocks roaming this neighborhood.

“Nobody’s bothered them that I’ve seen, and they are pretty to look at, they don't cause any problems."

That depends on who you talk to.

"Down around the corner."

Rimen Prody has lived in this neighborhood on Vancouver city limits for 34 years.

“They're kind of nuisance, I mean, can you imagine something get on top of (your) hood of your car? And they got claws like this. ”

And sometimes sitting on cars like this. There were more than half a dozen peacocks roaming this neighborhood back in May. The first two somehow got free from Cory Pennington's property and started to reproduce.

“Eventually we got the original two that I had and they had some babies. We didn't get all babies. And that’s what you see now. ”

The large birds can be uNPRedictable. The Oregon Zoo stopped letting peacocks roam its ground last May after one attacked a child at the zoo. Park County Animal Control says a wildlife contractor has captured and relocated all but one or maybe two of the peacocks during the past few months. It’s also fined Pennington $200 for letting the first birds get loose.

“We will continue to try to locate this animal; we will continue to try to encourage our wildlife trapper to get for relocation. But it’s never been a priority, because it hasn't really harmed anybody. ”