11 Facts About Indian peafowl

Indian peafowl, known as the common peafowl, and blue peafowl, is a peafowl species native to the Indian subcontinent.

The Indian peafowl is listed as of Least Concern on the IUCN Red List.

Indian peafowl are among the largest and heaviest representatives of the Phasianidae.

Indian peafowl is a resident breeder across the Indian subcontinent and inhabits the drier lowland areas of Sri Lanka.

Indian peafowl has been introduced to the United States, Mexico, Honduras, Costa Rica, Colombia, Guyana, Suriname, Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina, South Africa, Spain, Portugal, Madagascar, Mauritius, Reunion, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Australia, New Zealand, Croatia and the island of Lokrum.

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Indian peafowl was roundly criticised in a lengthy paper by Theodore Roosevelt, who wrote that Thayer had only managed to paint the peacock's plumage as camouflage by sleight of hand, "with the blue sky showing through the leaves in just sufficient quantity here and there to warrant the author-artists explaining that the wonderful blue hues of the peacock's neck are obliterative because they make it fade into the sky.

Indian peafowl's showed that the number of eyespots in the train predicted a male's mating success, and this success could be manipulated by cutting the eyespots off some of the male's ornate feathers.

However, some disagreement has arisen in recent years concerning whether or not female Indian peafowl do indeed select males with more ornamented trains.

In contrast to Petrie's findings, a seven-year Japanese study of free-ranging Indian peafowl came to the conclusion that female Indian peafowl do not select mates solely on the basis of their trains.

Indian peafowl are widely distributed in the wild across South Asia and protected both culturally in many areas and by law in India.

Methods to identify if feathers have been plucked or have been shed naturally have been developed, as Indian peafowl law allows only the collection of feathers that have been shed.