Praise the Lord that peacocks aren't commonplace around here. (Although I knew someone who grew up in India and said they were so common they had them for Thanksgiving like we do turkey.) Talk about practical jokes! One of the most beautiful birds on earth has the loudest, most irritating and grating call of any bird I've ever heard. I used to run an outdoor concert series at the Museum where I worked, and we had a small farm with peacocks. They loved to come to the concerts and sit fifty feet up in a tree and "sing along." It's lucky that I worked at a nature center, or they would have been on the table for Thanksgiving at our house...

Jerry