Well it worked on Grant. He spent the next 20 minutes trying to catch one. Here's method #38; The sneaky-sneaky "whistle whilst casually strolling up behind." (Nobody has more trouble getting behind birds than this guy. Hehe).
We parked our little euro car in a lot that was guarded by peacocks. I guess the idea was that if they saw someone trying to jack your stereo they would fan out their tails all pretty and distract them.