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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 ...
A white peafowl. Pavo is a genus of two species in the pheasant family. The two species, ... Green peafowl Male Female Pavo muticus Linnaeus, 1766. Three subspecies.
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 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 ...
The peahen is predominantly brown in colour, with a white face and iridescent green lower neck, and lack the elaborate train. There are several colour mutations of the Indian peafowl including the leucistic white peafowl. Despite the length and size of the covert feathers, the peacock is still capable of flight.
Gulls are typically grey or white, often with black markings on the head or wings. They have stout, longish bills and webbed feet. Terns are a group of generally medium to large seabirds typically with grey or white plumage, often with black markings on the head. Most terns hunt fish by diving but some pick insects off the surface of fresh water.
Peafowl is the common name for two bird species that belong to the genus Pavo: blue or Indian peafowl, which are originally from the Indian subcontinent and green peafowl, which are native to ...
Afropavo Chapin, 1936 (African peafowl) Pavo Linnaeus, 1758 (Asiatic peafowl) Polyplectron Temminck, 1807 (peacock-pheasants) Galloperdix Blyth, 1845 (Indian spurfowls) Tropicoperdix Blyth, 1859 (chestnut-necklaced and green-legged partridges) Haematortyx Sharpe, 1879 (crimson-headed partridge) Tribe Gallini. Bambusicola Gould, 1863 (bamboo ...