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Peacocks and Peahens
Peacocks and peahens are male and female peafowls – species of birds within the genus Pavo. Peacocks display their extravagant tail as part of courtship. During the mating season, they often emit a loud high-pitched cry.
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What vertebrate group does peacocks belong to?
Yes. Peacocks, like all birds, are vertebrates. They have a backbone and an internal skeleton, which are the characteristics shared by vertebrates.
Do peacocks take care of their babies?
Most of the time they do. I mean they go out once a day and and take care of finding food, flying, extra.(You get the idea)they usually leave the baby a little after it can tend for itself:)
What organisms compete with peacocks for food?
Wild, feral, and domestic felines and canines are the most common predators to peacocks and hens
How many spicies of peacocks are there?
There are many varieties of peacocks including mutations. The correct term is peafowl. Males are peacocks, females are peahens and their babies are peachicks. The most popular colour variety is the India blue. Others include the Java green, white, burmese green, purple, opal, charcol. A good site for all your peafowl-ly needs is Amy's peacock paradise. http://database.amyspeacockparadise.com/ that link will send you straight to the colour varieties, but if you scroll down you will see the home button to find what ever else you need to find about peafowls.
Can peacocks come in different colors other than blue?
Peacocks are large, colorful birds known for their iridescent tails. These tail feathers are very long and have "eyes." The birds are usually blue and green but some are white.
What kind of feathers do peacocks have?
Nice, silky, blue feathers. They can be many different colors, actually. For example, the Green Peafowl could be greenish blue. And the White-Eyed Peacock could be a grayish-white. Depends on the species.
What are some of the peacocks characteristics?
- 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.
What biome does a peacock live in?
Warm to moderate temperatures are best for raising peacocks. They can tolerate cold as long as they have some shelter, adequate food and water.
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How many peacocks are there in India?
The Indian Peafowl is a resident breeder in the Indian subcontinent. The peacock is designated as the national bird of India and the provincial bird of the Punjab (India).
How do you determine the gender of a peacock chick?
The peacock chick gender can be determined
The male chick of 30 days old carry barred feathers across the back of the bird
and chestnut primary feathers/
The female chick will have solid back.
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Yes; in fact, all birds do. They are hidden by their feathers, but are certainly there. This is how peacocks hear their predators approaching, so are quite sensitive to sound; this is why it is very hard to get near a peacock.
What is the mode of feeding of peacock?
I received a two-day old peacock from a petting zoo. Not knowing anything I tried everything from chick feed to store-bought starter feed. He turned his beak up at everything, and then Lucky the Peacock let me know I was way off base by latching onto a baby cricket one day and wolfing it down. From then on, I fed him rotten plums, meal worms. dried out eggs shells (for calcium), crickets (about 20 a day), lettuce, dandelions, gravel (for digestion) clover and ramen noodles. It is important to let them have some sunshine every day...it helps with their legs. They like to be close and cuddle with you if you walk around the yard. They will attack your dog and cat, no matter the size ratio, which is quite funny, but be protective of your peacock...they think they are bigger than they are.
Yes, a male peecock sheds or molts its tail feathers to get bigger ones. Kind of like White tail deer.
How many feathers does a peacock have?
Some would say peacocks only have 1 feather, they would be wrong! A peacock can hold up to 30 small feathers or 4 HUGE ones but 20 medium or average size feathers. The way peacocks spread they're tail/feathers it can look like just a single feather. But for I have came into a very close distance with these exotic creatures and have seen the truth. Peacock costumes make it seem like 1 feather but costumes don't always hold the truth. I truly hope you come into a distance with these creatures for they will be quite the site of your life!
