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A couple of decades after Baldwin's death, a chunk of his ranch and around 100 of his gaudy birds were transformed into the Los Angeles County Arboretum & Botanic Garden, located in the City of Arcadia, which named the peafowl its official bird. Shumakova was working from home at the time, and Bob's daily perambulations - she called the bird "Bob" - were more than an annoyance. Maxcy and Gonzalez conduct annual censuses in problem areas, then set out to reduce peafowl numbers through trapping outside the breeding season, so they don't orphan any chicks. After riling up the rest of the neighborhood peafowl, the one-bird marching band would gallivant over to Shumakova's neighbor's roof and continue his clamorous performance until noon or so, when he would slip away to decapitate Shumakova's roses or peck at his reflection in a window or a car door. [Extracted from the article]

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