Miami neighborhood overrun with peacocks plans to give the birds vasectomies to limit their population from growing after the peafowls have reportedly been creating messes on residents' driveways and scratching their houses.

The vasectomies are part of a pilot program that Pinecrest, a Miami-Dade County suburban village where nearly 18,000 people live, will launch in around a month, according to CBS News.

Miami-Dade County Commissioner Raquel Regaldo said if the pilot program works in Pinecrest, it could be rolled out to other communities like South Miami and Coral Gables.

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) said that peacocks "can exhibit nuisance behaviors when their numbers multiply or when they are being fed by people." Live traps can be used to remove "nuisance wildlife" in some parts of the Sunshine State, but state rules prohibit capturing and releasing non-native species into the wild.

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