This website uses cookies to improve your experience. We'll assume you're ok with this, but you can opt-out if you wish. Cookie settingsACCEPT
Privacy & Cookies Policy

Privacy Overview

This website uses cookies to improve your experience while you navigate through the website. Out of these cookies, the cookies that are categorized as necessary are stored on your browser as they are essential for the working of basic functionalities...
Necessary
Always Enabled
Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. This category only includes cookies that ensures basic functionalities and security features of the website. These cookies do not store any personal information.
Non-necessary
Any cookies that may not be particularly necessary for the website to function and is used specifically to collect user personal data via analytics, ads, other embedded contents are termed as non-necessary cookies. It is mandatory to procure user consent prior to running these cookies on your website.
SAVE & ACCEPT
    • Politics
    • Transport
    • Lifestyle
    • Community
    • Business
    • Crime
    • Environment
    • Health
    • Education
    • Sport
    • Harrogate
    • Ripon
    • Knaresborough
    • Boroughbridge
    • Pateley Bridge
    • Masham
  • What's On
  • Offers
  • Newsletter
  • Podcasts

Interested in advertising with us?

Advertise with us

  • News & Features
  • Your Area
  • What's On
  • Offers
  • Newsletter
  • Podcasts
  • Politics
  • Transport
  • Lifestyle
  • Community
  • Business
  • Crime
  • Environment
  • Health
  • Education
  • Sport
Advertise with us
Subscribe
  • Home
  • Latest News

We want to hear from you

Tell us your opinions and views on what we cover

Contact us
Connect with us
  • About us
  • Advertise your job
  • Correction and complaints
Download on App StoreDownload on Google Play Store
  • Terms and Conditions
  • Privacy Statement
  • Comments Participation T&Cs
Trust In Journalism

Copyright © 2020 The Stray Ferret Ltd, All Rights Reserved

Site by Show + Tell

Subscribe to trusted local news

In a time of both misinformation and too much information, quality journalism is more crucial than ever. By subscribing, you can help us get the story right.

  • Subscription costs less than £1 a week with an annual plan.

Already a subscriber? Log in here.

11

Mar 2021

Last Updated: 11/03/2021
Politics
Politics

Killinghall peacocks could be neutered

by John Plummer

| 11 Mar, 2021
Comment

0

Parish councillors are investigating whether it's possible to neuter the male birds amid concerns there are now as many as 16 peacocks roaming around the village.

peacock-1
One of the Killinghall peacocks.

Parish councillors are investigating the possibility of neutering peacocks that roam around a village.

Killinghall has been home to an ostentation of peacocks for many years.

Although most people welcome them, some are concerned about the increasing number and their impact.

There are now believed to be least 10, and possibly as many as 16.

At its latest meeting, Killinghall Parish Council resolved to look at ways of stemming the population growth, possibly by neutering.

When contacted by the Stray Ferret, Sue Reid, the clerk of the council, emphasised the organisation had no intention of getting rid of the birds.

But she said the council was obliged to respond to concerns raised by some residents. She said:

"We have never said we want to get rid of the peacocks. All we are doing is respecting the fact that not everybody likes them.
"Killinghall can't sustain them growing in such numbers."


Ms Reid said the peacocks had damaged cars and had even got into the home of one older woman and "wreaked havoc".

The council has put up posters urging people not to feed the birds, which are feral and can take care of themselves.

But Ms Reid is now investigating the practicalities of neutering the males, of which there are believed to be three.

"I am preparing a report for the next parish council meeting."






Read more:



  • Killinghall bypass 'yesterday's solution' to congestion

  • Housing case study: 75 homes forced on Killinghall after appeal