Asiatic peafowl

From Wikipedia, a free encyclopedia written in simple English for easy reading.

A male Blue Peafowl.
Enlarge
A male Blue Peafowl.

The Asiatic peafowl is a kind of bird. They are the genus Pavo from the Phasianidae family. They originally lived in India and Southeast Asia.

  • Genus: Pavo
    • Blue Peafowl or Indian Peafowl (Pavo cristatus)
    • Green Peafowl (Pavo muticus)

The male is called a peacock, the female a peahen.

The males are very colorful, and they have very long train feathers (or tail feathers), which they can move up like a fan. Females are less colorful, and do not have the long train-feathers. Both the male and the female have a little "crown" of feathers on their head. Males show their train feathers to court a female peafowl, or to scare other animals away by making them afraid.

Peafowl are omnivorous and eat plant parts, flower petals, seeds, insects, and small vertebrates, like reptiles and amphibians.


Look up Pavo in Wikispecies, a directory of species


Commons logo
Wikimedia Commons has media related to:


This short article can be made longer. You can help Wikipedia by adding to it.

In other languages