Peafowl Census Report May 6

Reminder: Tomorrow night, May 6, 2025, the City Council will review the Peafowl Census Report, an annual count of peacocks and peahens in RPV neighborhoods. The Council will also consider conducting selective humane trapping in the Vista Grande and Portuguese Bend neighborhoods, which have the highest populations. Overall, the City’s peafowl population grew by an average of 31% in 2025.

A staff report with more information is available on the City website,

Meeting Info

The meeting will take place on May 6, 2025, at 7 p.m. in McTaggart Hall at Hesse Park and via Zoom. Watch live on RPVtv’s YouTube channel, at rpvca.gov, or on Cox 33/FiOS 38. 

To participate in public comment during the meeting, fill out a speaker slip if you are attending in person, or complete a form online at rpvca.gov/participate to participate virtually or leave a pre-recorded voice message. Email your comments on agenda items to cc@rpvca.gov.

Background Info

For some background, the City implemented a periodic humane peafowl trapping and relocation program in 2015 in response to complaints from residents about the growing peafowl population and associated impacts (noise, property damage, etc.). It is not the City’s intent to eradicate the peafowl population, but to manage the population at levels identified in 2000 and to educate the public on how to coexist with the birds. This is all in an effort to strike a balance between differing opinions in the City.

Every year, the City Council receives a report on the past year’s trapping program (if trapping was conducted), as well as a census report for the current year’s peafowl population, to determine whether or not to resume trapping. Trapped peafowl are relocated off the Palos Verdes Peninsula to homes that have been screened by the trapping vendor and reviewed by the City to ensure the individuals adopting the peafowl have some avian experience and have adequate space for peafowl to roam freely. Under no circumstances will the trapped peafowl be euthanized or treated inhumanely.

For more information about the City’s Peafowl Management Plan, visit rpvca.gov/peafowl, and for updates, sign up for the Peafowl listserv at rpvca.gov/notify.

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