Blue peafowl
The blue peafowl or Indian peafowl (Pavo cristatus) is a bird native to the Indian subcontinent.[1]
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Blue Peafowl Media
Pavo cristatus from Venezuela
Call of Pavo cristatus
Black-shouldered Indian Peafowl Pavo cristatus from private collection of Coenraad Jacob Temminck (1778–1858), held at Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden, the Netherlands.
A white peafowl that is maintained by selective breeding in many parks such as this one at the Jardin des Plantes, Paris. This leucistic mutation is commonly mistaken for an albino.
Peacock dancing at Yala National Park, Sri Lanka
female with chick in Sri Lanka
Thayer in his "Peacock in the Woods" (1907) suggested that the function of the ornate tail was camouflage
Common Peafowl: male courting female. Pavo_cristatus.
Egg, collection Museum Wiesbaden
Peahen with three chicks near Hodal in Faridabad District of Haryana, India
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