Peaceful Peacock

Hi friends, hope you all had a fantastic time during the festival days. Happy to notice the reduction in decibel because of crackers in Mumbai, this would have certainly helped in controlling the pollution. Apart from pollution, it was very much helpful for wildlife especially to birds, the sound and smoke of such high decibel crackers takes away life from such lovely creatures. I urge each one of you to support the cause of saving wildlife in whatever way you can contribute, thanks once again

Last time Bar headed entertained us with its unknown and difficult to believe habit, I hope you too enjoyed it. While thinking about the topic I realized that we never talked about one the most beautiful bird who is known for its beauty as well as mythological importance, who else it can be, it has to be Peacock. The National bird of India what a colorful bird with elegance deserves to represent the Country, let’s move further to know more about Peacock in details

What do I Say? Peacock, Peafowl, or peahen

I am sure you will be confused with the correct name since we use peacock commonly for both male and female I need to clarify the fact related to it, the fact is the collective name for peacocks is peafowl. Only the male of the variety is called a peacock. The female peafowl is called a Peahen and the baby peafowl is called a peachick, I hope you will now use the correct terminology. Now let me ask another trickier, do you know how many species of peafowl are there? There are two Asiatic species the blue or Indian peafowl originally of the Indian subcontinent and the green peafowl of Southeast Asia. Is it not surprising, of course, it is. I guess now we have complete clarity so let me tell you some unique facts about habits, features, courtship dance etc that makes this bird of a National category

The Dancing Star

I am sure we all know that Peacock dance well but do we know the reason, let see the details about the dance, it is very much interesting. Peacock dance for courtship display, it is like a boy is trying to impress a girlfriend😅. There may be nothing more beautiful than the courtship display of the peacock, with its blue-green plumage it looks beautiful and it becomes awesome and artistic when it presents itself to peahen to impress her. Its tail feathers open up to form a long spectacular train spread out like a fan that touches the ground on either side and makes up about 60 percent of the bird's total body length. The train is not actually the true tail but is made up of tail coverts adorned with a colorful "eye" at the tip. Such an eye on full flowing feathers is a treat to watch, this helps to impress Peahen

Peacocks gather in groups called "parties," and females seem to choose mates based on their dance performance as well as their strutting and vocal abilities. This not only unique but rare as well, you have to be extremely lucky to sight the same. Let me share a tip, the place is purely for Peacock and Peahen, the place is Morachi Chincholi, here you can follow them exclusively for the full day and if you are lucky, you may get a chance to see the dancing peacock. Now lets read some facts as well

The Flawless facts

They are one of the largest flying birds. Their length (including tail) can reach 5 feet. They can weigh between 8-13 pounds

They are omnivores (eat both plants and animals). They like to eat insects, arthropods, amphibians, flowers, seeds

Colors of the tail will look different every time you change the angle of looking because of the reflection of the light. Tail feathers have eye-like spots, surrounded with red, green, gold and red feathers

The family of peafowl is called "Bevy" and Group of peafowl is called "Party"

Peacocks are polygamous (mate with more than one female) and usually form a harem that consists of 2-5 females

Indian Peafowl and Green Peafowl both types are endangered because of the habitat loss, smuggling, and predation