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Peacock
These wonderful birds who used to roam throughout our land have slowly been eliminated so that now they are hard to find in the wild. The plumage of these wonderful birds has given so many children throughout time a look of awe as they spread their plummage. Can we not protect them so that our grand children have the same opportunity.
After the diversity in the beautiful pheasant family, we come to diversity in the peacock family too! The pea fowl have been divided into three main types. The Indian (or common) Peafowl, the Green Peafowl, and the White Peafowl. In the course of time man has raised various peacock breeds. The best known are the white, mottled, and black-winged peacocks. This latter breed is particularly beautiful and has black shoulder wing feathers; the hens are much lighter in colour. At the beginning of the nineteenth century, black-winged peacocks appeared as mutations among the blue English peacock strains.
Many experts consider the green peafowl to be the most beautiful of all gallinaceous birds. Its life pattern is not markedly different from that of its blue congeners. green Peafowl do not meow, but instead utter a loud trumpet tones that sound like "hah-oh-hah". They are considered keen-eyed, watchful, and cautious jungle inhabitants, and rarely does an enemy sneaking up on them escape their attention. This fabulous bird would probably have supplanted the Indian peafowl among us if it were not for some serious disadvantages. It is not resistant to winter weather and requires frost free sheltering in the cold season. Moreover, they have fierce, lively and courageous tempers. Males do not get along with one another and both males and females become so aggressive toward people that they pose danger. A crossbreed with the Indian peafowl has given rise to the beautiful Spalding peacock. Under human care peafowl may live upto thirty years.
*NOTE*We have not found any information to give a status of this bird.
We list it here because all the pages we found showed all the birds in cages in captivity, If any one out there knows of a wed site that give information on the bird in the wild please e-mail us with the information.
