What are some of the peacocks characteristics?

Answer 1

• The male peafowl is known as a peacock and a female is known as a peahen.
• Even though they stay mostly on the ground, peafowl can fly. They actually sleep in trees or other roosting spots off the ground.

• Peacocks use their beautiful tail feathers to attract females (peahens) in breeding season. They raise and fan the feathers out, prance and strut while intermittently shaking their wing and tail feathers rapidly which makes a loud rustling sound as they pose and show off their striking feathers. They actually can seem somewhat vain and proud of how they look to the "ladies".

• Peafowl love to eat cat food and dog food as snacks but mostly eat cracked corn and other grains as well as bugs, grubs and worms. They are good to have to keep pests from the garden.

• The peacock's call is a loud repetitive and shrill "scream" that many have mistaken for a woman's screaming.

• Peafowl make good "watch dogs" and will raise a real ruckus if there is unexpected activity at night near their roosts.

• Downy Peachicks can plump up their down feathers making them look fluffy, fat, and round, about the size of a softball. They stay very busy imitating the adults pecking and pecking at this and that speck on the ground, and can be very competitive when an insect or other yummy treat is spied in their pecking area.

• Peafowl aren't always the brightly colored birds we typically see; some are bred to be pure white. But, there are only three naturally bred peacocks. The Indian Blue one, the Java Green one, and the Congo peafowl.

• Peacocks use their long tail feathers to attract peahens for mating. They raise them and fan them and strut around showing off. While they do this they also will intermittently shake their tails and wings to make a loud rustling sound to get attention. They also will turn their backs to the females while this ritual is ongoing so they can wag their short tail feathers that are underneath the long ones quickly back and forth, which also adds to the rustling sounds of the feathers. The girls seem to really like this part of the dance.

• A group of peafowl is called a party.

only the males have a train or long feathers, the peafowl doen't.

Answer 2

• The males are known as peacocks
• The females are known as peahens
• The peacocks are much more colorful then the hens
• Peacocks are very important in Hindu culture

Answer 3

Peacocks have beautiful tail feathers. The female, peahens, do not. Peahens hens have to teach their chicks to eat since they do not exhibit instinctual behavior. They are omnivores, eating seeds, insects, small reptiles and so on. Baby peacocks can fly within days of birth. During the middle ages, peacocks were served to kings. Symbolism of the peacock is wide and varied throughout Asia and Africa, often representing pride and vanity. In 1956, the NBC network adopted the peacock logo.

Answer 4

the male has big, colourful feathers so they can attract a mate, the rounded eye bit on the males feather is for protection. the most common breed of peacock is called the Indian Blue.

Answer 5

Peacocks are male peafowls with a very long bright blue and green tail. They mostly live in forests and are native to India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and South Africa.

Answer 6

Peacocks are members of the pheasant family. The word peacock refers to the male, and the female is called a peahen. The young are called peachicks.

Answer 7

They are aves, live outside of the US, and their body covering is feathers.

Answer 8

a fun fact about peacocks is that a peacock makes a sound heard from ten miles away when it mates its telling other peacocks that it mated