Green Peafowl the Symbol of Beauty

Among animals, the peafowl, also known as the Peacock, is the most pleasant and lively. Its feathers are colorful. It sings beautifully and is praised as the symbol of beauty by people in many countries.

Peafowl is a big bird species and there are two major families – one is the Asian peafowl which includes Indian peafowl or Blue Peafowl and Thai peafowl called Green Peafowl.

Another family is the African peafowl such as Congo peafowl. However a number of animal academics do not count Congo peafowl as a peacock family because its behavior is different from the Indian and Thai partners.

Thai peafowl is bigger than the Indian one and has long legs. Male and female Green Peafowl have green and yellow feather crest on its head and different from the Indian type. Their feather crests have a fan-shape, the co lour of feathers on its head and neck are short and in bluish, yellow green color. There are blue, black and yellow on both sides of its face. While the feathers on its neck, chest and on the back have round tip, particularly on the back in the middle the color is yellowish green and lower down in blackish cooper. The male has long tail when it struts its tail, the end of tail feather has beautiful round pattern called ‘Waew Mayura’ with bluish black in the middle of yellowish green circle and surrounded by another layer of copper color oval pattern. A female peafowl is smaller size than her male peer and shorter crest, her body feathers has brownish red color weaving in between.

Peafowl scavenges for food in a herd; they walk slowly and stop at long interval. Its food is mainly grass seeds and young leaves of plants such as weed, spinach and also insects.

For Thai peafowl families, there are three sub-groups-Burmese, Indochina and Java. In Thailand once there were heads of peafowl roaming across country, but it is lessen in number nowadays and only in the conservation areas.