Dozens of peacocks and peahens known for wandering the grounds of a historic Art Deco hotel in the Sacramento Delta are missing, and the hotel staff said Tuesday they believe the birds were stolen.

The Ryde Hotel’s staffers are desperately missing their favorite occupants — the gorgeous peacocks known to fawn about on the orchard-lined banks of

The Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office received a call Sunday morning reporting that as many as 37 peacocks were taken from the Ryde Hotel in Walnut Grove, Sgt. Amar Gandhi, a spokesperson for the office, told SFGATE. But as of Monday afternoon, only six have been confirmed missing, Gandhi said.