The inhabitants of a small seaside village are terrified by out-of-control, aggressive birds: this may sound like the plot for Alfred Hitchcock’s 1963 film ‘The Birds’, but it’s actually a real-life story unfolding in a small village in the town of Ravenna, Italy.
In the Italian seaside village of Punta Marina, peacocks have become an unlikely source of division, with residents clashing over the growing number of birds roaming the town.pic.twitter.com/WZx9xKrydt
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“The inhabitants of Punta Marina say they are being driven to distraction by the birds, which keep them up at night with their strident screeches, eat the flowers in their gardens, damage their cars, and deposit droppings all over the place.
Until a few years ago, there were a handful of peacocks living in the seaside resort, which is close to the city of Ravenna. Locals say they proliferated during the Covid pandemic, taking advantage of the absence of vehicles and people in the streets during the long months of lockdown.
There are now estimated to be around 120 of the elegant but noisy birds living in Punta Marina.”
Love-crazed peacocks invade Italian seaside village causing traffic chaos and car damage
Around 120 wild peacocks have swarmed Punta Marina on Italy’s Adriatic coast during mating season, climbing onto parked cars, scratching paintwork with their claws and covering streets in…pic.twitter.com/LgD3fZvpFO
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Residents say that the male peacocks keep pecking at cars, mistaking their reflections for rivals.
Source: The Gateway Pundit
