Asiatic peafowl
| Peafowl | |
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| Indian Blue Peacock | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Galliformes |
| Family: | Phasianidae |
| Genus: | Pavo Linnaeus, 1758 |
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Pavo cristatus |
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The Asiatic peafowl is a kind of bird. They are the genus Pavo from the Phasianidae family. They originally live in Pakistan and India, Southeast Asia. In Pakistan, it is the provincial/regional bird of the Pakistani province of Punjab.
- 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.
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A male Green Peafowl fanning his train feathers.
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A female Blue Peafowl.
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A Blue Peacock courting a Blue Peahen.
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