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Wild peacocks roam round a entrance yard in San Antonio.
Members of San Antonio Metropolis Council have filed paperwork essential to deliver new protections for town’s wild chook inhabitants earlier than the entire physique.
District 7 Councilwoman Marina Alderete Gavito on Tuesday filed a Council Consideration Request (CCR) to start discussing new protections for birds together with wild peacocks. CCRs, which have to be authorised by 5 members, are a major first step in getting a measure to a vote earlier than the entire council.
Gavito instructed the San Antonio Report she initiated the request after residents residing close to the Medical Heart, residence to a considerable wild peacock inhabitants, complained {that a} neighbor employed an unlicensed contractor to lure the unique birds.
San Antonio has been formally acknowledged as a “Hen Metropolis” by the Texas Audubon Society and the Texas Parks and Wildlife Division since 2021. To maintain that designation, it should take part in neighborhood engagement and habitat enhancement together with creating protected areas for birds.
Gavito’s CCR asks council to permit Animal Care Providers to humanely seize and take away peafowl, together with peacocks, solely after taking neighborhood enter under consideration. What’s extra, the requests ask council to create an ordinance underneath which solely licensed professionals may take away and relocate peacocks.
District 1’s Sukah Kaur, District 2’s Jalen Mckee-Rodriguez, District 5’s Teri Castillo and District 8’s Manny Pelaez , who’s operating for mayor, additionally signed onto the CCR.
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