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1781 painting by Maruyama Okyo Adult female head and upper neck Male profile. The green peafowl is a large bird in terms of overall size. The male is 1.8–3 m (5 ft 11 in – 9 ft 10 in) in total length, including its train, which measures 1.4–1.6 m (4 ft 7 in – 5 ft 3 in); the adult female is around half the total length of the breeding male at 1–1.1 m (3 ft 3 in – 3 ft 7 in) in length.
A green peafowl (Pavo muticus) Peafowl are omnivores and mostly eat plants, flower petals, seed heads, insects and other arthropods, reptiles, and amphibians. Wild peafowl look for their food scratching around in leaf litter either early in the morning or at dusk. They retreat to the shade and security of the woods for the hottest portion of ...
The genus Pavo was introduced in 1758 by the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus in the tenth edition of his Systema Naturae. [1] The genus name is the Latin word for a peacock. [ 2 ] The type species is the Indian peafowl ( Pavo cristatus ).
That Thailand's habitats are contiguous with those of neighbouring countries explains the low number of endemic species. In 1991, it was estimated that 159 resident and 23 migratory species were endangered or vulnerable due to forest clearance, illegal logging, hunting and habitat degradation, especially in the lowlands. The species most ...
Pavonini is a tribe of bird in the subfamily Phasianinae.Members of this family are primarily found in tropical Asia, along with one species in the Congo Rainforest in Africa.
Forget Chip and Joanna Gaines, bowerbirds are the real home renovation stars! These incredible avian artists have a keen eye for color and are masters of interior design, spending countless hours ...
The longest gamebirds species, if measured from the tip of the bill to the end of the tail coverts, is the male green peafowl (Pavo muticus) of Southeast Asia at a length of up to 3 m (9.8 ft), with two-thirds of the length being made up by the tail coverts. It has a relatively large wingspan for a gamebird, spanning as much as 1.6 m (5.2 ft ...
The 265 species of fauna include: 35 mammals, 140 birds, 17 water birds, and 46 reptiles. Vulnerable or endangered species of mammals have been recorded in this protected area, such as the clouded leopard (Neofelis nebulosa), Asian elephant (Elephas maximus), gaur (Bos gaurus), and banteng (Bos javanicus) as well as the near threatened red serow (Capricornis rubidus). [4]