NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP) – A female peacock, or peahen, that escaped Monday from the Bronx Zoo is back home. The fugitive bird has been roaming the streets of the Bronx since Monday.

If you’re wandering in a neighborhood across the street from the Methodist Church you will stumble upon a peacock or two sitting up on roofs. How did they end up in Murrells Inlet?

She discovered during the sales process that an enclosure in her backyard housed a majestic 10-year-old peacock.

Residents say the bird, which is actually a peahen (a female of the species), has been hanging around the Pine Springs/Mahtomedi area for a month or so.

Peacocks, Peahens and Peafowls. Peahens have more subtle plumage. ... Suddenly he turns away from the female into what is called a ‘backside display’ just before he mates with her.

More than two dozen peafowl — the term that covers both male peacocks and female peahens — are roaming the quiet streets on Tuesday evening, and no one is surprised.

Snip one male peacock, the thinking goes, and it will no longer be able to fertilize the eggs of the female peahens in its harem. “Peacocks are bona fide polygamists,” said Dr. Don J. Harris, ...

Peafowl, which includes male peacocks and female peahens, are not native to Texas. Several birds were introduced to San Antonio several decades ago, according to ACS, and have since become free ...