Is it a bird? No, it's vermin: Goa reclassifies the peacock

Move by India's popular tourist state could lead to mass culling of the country's national bird

India's popular tourist state of Goa has ruffled feathers with its proposal to reclassify its national bird, the peacock, as vermin, reports said.

The move, which is aimed at making the bird easier to cull, comes just weeks after Goa's legislative assembly caused similar consternation when it ruled that the resort state's beloved coconut trees were not in fact trees, but palms.