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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.
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). [3]
The Thailand Development Research Institute (TDRI) calculates that each forest staffer needs to police 2,083 rai (3.333 km 2). In Thailand overall there are 443 protected forest zones totalling 66.3 million rai (106,100 km 2), or 20.68 percent of the country's total area. The government allocates a budget of around 61 baht per rai to manage them.
The others are the green peafowl (Pavo muticus) and the Congo peafowl (Afropavo congesnis). Indian blue peafowl are a native bird of Sri Lanka and India and are also found in the wild in some ...
While the forests are habitat for more than 450 bird species, half of Cambodia's total of which four, the chestnut-headed partridge, Lewis's silver pheasant (Lophura nycthemera lewisi), the green peafowl (Pavo muticus) and the Siamese partridge (Arborophila diversa) are endemic to these mountains.
Going on mass, the only known bird with a higher dimorphism is the green peafowl (Pavo muticus) as the males are apparently near four times as heavy as females. [ 19 ] [ 16 ] The female is about a third smaller in linear dimensions, typically measuring 75 to 85 cm (2 ft 6 in to 2 ft 9 in) in height, about 90 cm (2 ft 11 in) [ 22 ] in length and ...
This location is an important watershed for the Kinntarr Dam. The altitude varies from 0.09321 miles (150 m) to 0.9662 miles (1,555 m). ... (Pavo muticus), along with ...
Phu Luang Wildlife Sanctuary (Thai: เขตรักษาพันธุ์สัตว์ป่าภูหลวง) is a wildlife sanctuary in northern Thailand, located in the Phu Luang mountain area, in the south of Loei Province. [1] The area around the mountain is part of the Luang Prabang montane rain forests ecoregion. [2]