Indian Blue Peacock. Zoo


The Indian Peafowl, Pavo cristatus also known as the Common Peafowl or the Blue Peafowl is one of the species of bird in the genus Pavo of the Phasianidae family known as peafowl. The Indian Peafowl is a resident breeder in the Indian subcontinent. The peacock is the national bird of are most notable for the male's extravagant display feathers, despite actually growing from their back is known as a 'tail' and also known as a train, a result of sexual selection, which it displays as part of courtship. This train is in reality not the tail but the enormously elongated upper tail coverts. The tail itself is brown and short as in the peahen.


Size: 3600px × 5400px
Location: Cosley Zoo, 1356 N Gary AveWheaton, IL 60187
Photo credit: © Plamen Stanev / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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