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White Peacock


White Peacock
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Copyright: Goldy RS (goldyrs) Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 593 W: 55 N: 1271] (4842)
Genre: Animals
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2008-03-23
Categories: Birds
Camera: Canon S2 IS
Exposure: f/3.2, 1/60 seconds
More Photo Info: [view]
Photo Version: Original Version
Date Submitted: 2008-03-25 10:05
Viewed: 900
Points: 28
[Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note
The White Peacock, frequently mistaken for an albino, but it is a colour variety of Indian Blue Peacock. Its white colour makes it looks really magnificent and elegant.

The Indian Peafowl, Pavo cristatus, also known as the Common Peafowl or the Blue Peafowl, is one of the species of bird in the genus Pavo of the Phasianidae family known as peafowl. The Indian Peafowl is a resident breeder in the Indian subcontinent. The peacock is the national bird of India.


The species is found in dry semi-desert grasslands, scrub and deciduous forests. It forages and nests on the ground but roosts on top of trees. It eats mainly seeds, but also some insects, fruits and reptiles.

Females are about 86 cm (34 in) long and weigh about 3.4 kg (7.4 lbs), while males average at about 2.12 m (7.3 ft) in full breeding plumage (107 cm/42 in when not) and weigh about 5 kg (11 lbs). The male is called a peacock, the female a peahen. The Indian Peacock has iridescent blue-green plumage. The upper tail coverts on its back are elongated and ornate with an eye at the end of each feather. These are the Peacock's display feathers. The female plumage is a mixture of dull green, grey and iridescent blue, with the greenish-grey predominating. In the breeding season, females stand apart by lacking the long 'tail feathers' also known as train, and in the non-breeding season they can be distinguished from males by the green colour of the neck as opposed to the blue on the males.

Peafowl are most notable for the male's extravagant display feathers which, despite actually growing from their back, are known as a 'tail' or a train. This train is in reality not the tail but the enormously elongated upper tail coverts. The tail itself is brown and short as in the peahen. They are a result of sexual selection and are displayed as part of courtship.

They lay a clutch of 4-8 eggs which take 28 days to hatch. The eggs are light brown and are laid every other day usually in the afternoon. The male does not assist with the rearing, and is polygamous with up to six hens.

Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Chordata

Class: Aves

Order: Galliformes

Family: Phasianidae

Genus: Pavo

-Source Wikipedia

PS: Much as I hate to post a caged animal, I've gone ahead and posted this one since these have hardly been sighted in the wild in recent times.
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Hello Goldy,
Good choice of a vertical posting which included the whole of the white Peacock!
good pose with clarity, natural colour and details
many thanks for sharing
Tony

So, it is a White Peacock!! I assumed it was an albino as well, so thank you for the information. Unusual POV but a fine image. TFS regards h

Hi Goldy, fascinating white Peacock with splendid colors tail feathers, very well done, ciao Silvio

Hi Goldy,

I like the fact that you have framed something pretty against something ugly; it makes for an interesting composition.

Mike

Hi Bro,
What a beautiful bird in a lovely posture. Nice composition. TFS.
Cheers,

Bayram

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  • Luis52 Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 1025 W: 5 N: 2876] (10399)
  • [2008-03-25 14:26]

Hola Goldy.
Muy bella foto. Muy hermoso el largo plumaje de este Pavo Real en color blanco. La seleccion de encuadre es muy adecuada.
Saludos Goldy.
Luis52.

Hello Goldy,
Perfect and lovely capture of this beauty. TFS.
Regards,
Nazım

I am always open to new things...and I reckon I have to be...in this world a million species this one stands out and more than likely wishes it could be out a bit more..very nicely done!
Bob

Hello Goldy,
Lovely shot of this beautiful bird with a lovely pose! Fine POV, excellent DOF & framing too. TFS. Regards,
Bahadır

I never knew we have white Peacocks too, even if caged. This is a great surprise for me.
Though I wouldn't go for critiqing this image for technical reasons, I would say that it is a great documentation image of a species people know little about.
Well done and TFS
Ram

Hello Goldy,

Composition is good throug the portrait format.
Sharpness can a little better.
Good colors, the BG is not so nice.

Regards Gert

Hi Goldy,
A nice capture of this beautiful white peacock. Excellent composition and good details. A slight noisy but its OK. Thanks a lot for sharing.

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  • Adanac Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 1095 W: 1 N: 4452] (14946)
  • [2008-03-26 19:10]

Hello Goldy,
He looks almost ghostly, but you are right elegant is a great discription. Thanks for shaowing this fine species to us Goldy.
Rick

Hi Golds,
Very beautiful bird shot from a great POV. A little noise but still a great shot.

TFS
Kirti

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