Peacock Bird - Blue Peacock, Green Peacocks of India, Indian Peaf

Blue peacock is regarded as one of the most beautiful birds throughout the world. It is also the National Bird of the Indian subcontinent. Peacock is the name given to a male peafowl, while the female is known as Peahen. Scientifically known as Pavo cristatus (Linnaeus), the Peafowl of India is a swan-sized bird, with a long and slender neck. It is a forest bird, which usually stay on the ground. However, while roosting, it prefers to stay on trees.

Physical Traits
One of the most unique as well as distinctive features of the Blue peacocks is their beautiful train, comprising of tail feathers. The train is 1.4-1.6 m long, measuring more than 60 percent of the body length. It comprises of 100-150 highly specialized upper tail coverts. Whenever a peacock wants to attract a peahen, it erects the train into a fabulous fan. The entire body length of the Indian peacocks averages around 2.3 m and the wingspan is around 1.4-1.6 m long. Their weight hovers around 4.0 to 6.0 kg.

Indian peahen is almost brown in color, with the only exception being its white belly. The sole embellishment adorning the peahen is its prominent crest and the green neck feathers. Peahens are shorter than peacocks and measure not more than 1 m in length. Their weight is somewhere between 2.75 and 4.0 kg. The peacock as well as the peahen has a white patch under the eyes.