Indian Peafowl
Going through my files and List of Birds I realized that I had completely forgot to count and add one more bird. The Indian Peafowl. One of the most beautiful birds I’ve seen. There is more information about this bird next:
Indian Peafowl – Latin name: Pavo cristatus
A resident breeder in South Asia. The peacock is designated as the national bird of India.There are two Asiatic and one African species of flying bird in the genus Pavo of the pheasant family, Phasianidae, best known for the male’s extravagant eye-spotted tail covert feathers, which it displays as part of courtship. The male is called a peacock, the female a peahen, and the offspring peachicks. The adult female peafowl is grey and/or brown. Peachicks can be between yellow and a tawny color with darker brown patches or light tan and ivory, also referred to as “dirty white”.
White peacocks are not albinos; they have a genetic mutation that is known as Leucism, which causes the lack of pigments in the plumage. Albino animals and birds have a complete lack of color and red or pink eyes while White peafowl have blue eyes. The white color appears in other domestically bred peafowl but in different quantities. Chicks are born yellow and become white as they mature, according to the Peafowl Varieties Database. Indian peafowl of all colors, including white, have pink skin.
As with many birds, vibrant iridescent plumage colours are not primarily pigments, but structural coloration. Optical interference Bragg reflections, based on regular, periodic nanostructures of the barbules (fiber-like components) of the feathers produce the peacock’s colors. Slight changes to the spacing result in different colours. Brown feathers are a mixture of red and blue: one colour is created by the periodic structure, and the other is a created by a Fabry–Pérot interference peak from reflections from the outer and inner boundaries. Such structural coloration causes the iridescence of the peacock’s hues since, unlike pigments, interference effects depend on light angle.
NOTE: The Indian Peafowl is a new addition to my List of Birds as: # 198
Text Excerpt © Wikipedia – All photographs © HJ Ruiz – Avian101
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These are creatures of extraordinary beauty!.
I second that! Thanks Carmen! 🙂
When my sister lived in Florida, she had a family of peacocks take up residence in her back yard and have babies. She thought it was so wonderful, until they began destroying her carefully planted flower beds, pooped all over her patio and made all kinds of noise day and night! Her stories of their exploits were funny to me, but then I wasn’t living with them in my back yard! LOL I remember warning her when they first showed up, that she wouldn’t want them to make her yard their home, but she didn’t believe me. Enjoying such beauty on a daily basis comes with a bit of a price. 🙂
These birds are no doubt very beautiful, if they haven’t been raised from domesticated breed or they’ve lived in the wilderness then they’ll act like wild turkeys that they are! Thanks for sharing Amy! 🙂