Birds can be friend or foe.

On the friend side of the ledger, check out the short film Canuck (it’s on YouTube) about the guy in Vancouver who walks around the city with his pal Canuck the crow. Instead of flying away on the day his neighbor went to release it after rescuing it as a chick, the bird flew to this guy’s arm and now that happens every day.

It’s a wild crow, but still hangs with this Vancouverite when he’s out and about.

On the foe front are the Australian magpies that harass cyclists anytime they ride near the birds’ roadside nests. There’s a YouTube video of a rider deploying his custom magpie-frightener. The DIY device looks like a pair of party blowers (those things that unroll and honk when you blow into them) attached to his helmet. When a squawking magpie dive-bombs, he puffs into a tube that instantly inflates the two extensions.

But those magpies can’t hold a candle to the female peacock that recently strutted through the open door of Royal Oaks Liquor in Arcadia, California.

The manager, 21-year-old Rani Ghanem, didn’t notice it come in. Then a customer alerted him to el pollo. Ghanem went over to check out the “chicken,” and as if angered by the species misidentification, the bird rushed him, then bolted to a top shelf.

After Ghanem called animal control, things got goofy — and a bit like that bottle-smashing shoot-out at Benny’s World of Liquor in From Dusk Till Dawn.

The animal pros showed up with a huge fishing net and started swinging at the peacock. The bird went berserk, rocketing around like a pissed-off juvenile pterodactyl, knocking bottle after bottle of wine and liquor off store shelves.

Taking matters into his own hands, Ghanem donned a sweatshirt to protect his arms from its talons, swooped in, and gathered up the frenzied fowl, saving the store’s remaining booze. As it was, $500 worth of hooch puddled the floor.

We hope Ghanem poured himself a drink. Though maybe not Wild Turkey.