Noisy pet rooster ruffles feathers in the Hamptons with pre-dawn crowing — with one resident reporting it as ‘harassment’

This rooster really ruffled some feathers.

Neighbors in the Hamptons have been duking it out in a wild, months-long feud over a noisy rooster — with one side squawking that the bird constantly wakes him and the other reporting “harassment” to cops.

The fowl play — which is now unfolding in a local court case — began last May in East Hampton after Marc Auerbach, 53, got fed up with loud pre-dawn crowing by neighbor Efrain Mayorga’s pet rooster, Brownie.

Auerbach griped to the town that the feathered loudmouth starts its “awful animal scream” at around 4:45 a.m. — then continues off and on until 8 a.m. in the suburban area, according to court documents.

“Excuse my language, but it’s f–king ridiculous,” Auerbach, 53, told The Post. “I had to go to a doctor and take sleeping pills to deal with it.”

Auerbach said he lost a $1,750-per month rental tenant due to the noise and that his kids no longer want to stay with him because they lose sleep, according to court papers.

He repeatedly complained to the town about the cock-a-doodle disturbance, penning dozens of logs with the times and dates of each annoying cluckfest.

“[It’s] early morning noise misery,” Auerbach wrote in a letter to a town official. “We are at our wit’s end.”

“There is a simple fix — remove the damn rooster from the property,” he crowed.

The complaints resulted in a months-long town investigation and the bird’s owner being hit with a rare noise nuisance violation, officials said, according to court papers. However, the town didn’t remove Brownie, who continued to crow uncontrollably each morning, the Auerbach’s said.

But Mayorga’s daughter, Ana Nunez, contends Auerbach started the barnyard battle because he simply wants to Airbnb the home to the pool party set.

She said Auerbach sent her family a threatening letter that falsely claimed to be from a lawyer, and that he has honked and shouted at them over the rooster.

“Complainant states that Auerbach has . . . given her fake documents claiming to be from his attorney,” an East Hampton Town police officer wrote in a report, according to the East Hampton Star.

“He’s creating a nuisance. It’s harassment by him delivering a fake lawyer’s letter…That’s a crime,” Nunez, who herself is an attorney, told The Post. “This is what an animal does.”

Auerbach could not immediately be reached for comment on the fake lawyer claim.

Her family even built a shed over the chicken coop to keep the rooster from crowing, she said.

“I think it’s a combination of entitlement and opportunity, because he’s renting the house. The pool is what’s the closest to our chicken coop.”

The Mayorgas called police after receiving the letter, reporting that Auerbach  “yelled” at them through a fence and sent “fake documents claiming to be from his attorney,” according to the East Hampton Star, which was first to report the neighborhood clash.

Auerbach then agreed to stop contacting the family, wrote Andrew Nimmo, an East Hampton Town police officer.

Auerbach said he first tried sending an “incredibly polite” letter and flowers pleading with them to ditch the cock. They agreed to get rid of the bird by May 2023 — but then failed to follow through, he said.

“I feel strongly about it because I can’t sleep,” he said. “I’ve tried earplugs, soundproofing, heavy curtains.”

Both sides have since lawyered up  and the Mayorgas want the noise nuisance citation, which could result in a $1,000 fine,  dropped.

The case is set to go to trial in the town’s Justice Court of East Hampton on April 30.

Additional reporting by Steve Janoski