A bird by any other name is subdue a bird.  Maybe this is right or maybe it’s not.  We may not have seen one in person, but we all use the same term.  They have an incredible and colorful apply of feathers, and we call them peacocks.  We use the term to describe that type of bird, when it really doesn’t apply to all.  The right name for these types of birds is peafowl.  The male is called a peacock and the female is a peahen.  The babies are called peachicks.

The peacock has long feathers, which they apply out to attract females.  We all reckon of those  feathers as their tail, but the feathers are really known as the train.  The peacock does have a tail, which helps support their feathers.  There are designs on the peacock feathers that look like eyes.  The peahen colors are not as bright as the peacock and her tail isn’t as long.  The peahen will spectacle her  feathers as a way of protecting her babies.

The peahen commonly lays between 6 to 12 eggs.  It usually takes about 28 days for the eggs to hatch. If the peahen is in captivity, her eggs can be hatched naturally, in an incubator, or by introduction the eggs under other birds, like a chicken or duck.  When peachicks are born they by now have feathers and can usually glide within two weeks.  For peachicks to survive, they need warm weather.  The peacock is mature by the time he’s 3 years ancient, sardonically, all peafowl can start to mate when they are 2 years ancient.  There wants to be at least one mature peafowl to produce fertile eggs.  Peafowls breed during the spring and  early summer.  Normally they are silent, but they become noisy during the mating season.  When August rolls around, the peacock sheds his tail feathers and starts to grow new ones.

Peafowls spend a lot of their time on the ground looking for food and eat from a very diverse menu, anything from insects, seeds, and berries to snakes and worms.   The peafowl can be found in most areas of the world, though they tend to like flat tropical areas and dense forest like  areas near water and they will only glide for small distances, usually to get away from danger and to roost in treetops at night.

The peafowl looks like and is an exotic bird.  Something that you would normally only expect to see at a animal preserve or if you took a trip to another country.  So, why do peafowls seem so common, well,  human scenery seems to be, if you see something you like, you want to own it.  Like with so many other animals, public want a peafowl in their yard.  Public constantly remove animals from their natural  surroundings because they want to domesticate them.  Do public reckon about the change on the peafowl populace every time they remove one from its home.  Do they consider what the change in environment will do to the health of the peafowl.   Eventually public should realize that having an exotic animal in your yard maybe fantastic for you, but it maybe hurting the animal.

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