Asiatic peafowl
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The Asiatic peafowl is a kind of bird. They are the genus Pavo from the Phasianidae family. They originally lived in India and Southeast Asia.
- Genus: Pavo
- Blue Peafowl or Indian Peafowl (Pavo cristatus)
- Green Peafowl (Pavo muticus)
The male is called a peacock, the female a peahen.
The males are very colorful, and they have very long train feathers (or tail feathers), which they can move up like a fan. Females are less colorful, and do not have the long train-feathers. Both the male and the female have a little "crown" of feathers on their head. Males show their train feathers to court a female peafowl, or to scare other animals away by making them afraid.
Peafowl are omnivorous and eat plant parts, flower petals, seeds, insects, and small vertebrates, like reptiles and amphibians.
 A male Green Peafowl fanning his train feathers. |
 A female Green Peafowl. |
 A female Blue Peafowl. |
 A Blue Peacock couting a Blue Peahen. |
 Close view of a Blue Peacock. |
 The train of a Blue Peacock. |
 The train-feathers of a peacock. |
 A white Blue Peacock (It is not an albino). |
