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Indian Peacock
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| Photo Information |
Copyright: Eric Threinen (Eric)
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| Genre: Animals |
| Medium: Color |
| Date Taken: 2005-04 |
| Categories: Birds |
| Camera: Canon 350D, 75-300mm, 58mm UV |
| Exposure: 1/500 seconds |
| Photo Version: Original Version |
| Date Submitted: 2005-09-27 18:45 |
| Viewed: 5594 |
| Points: 10 |
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| [Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note [French] |
Personal notes:
A great classic that any animalist photographer must have in his collection. This splendid specimen of indian peacock was taken in the African reserve of Sigean (near Narbonne in France).
Wikipedia encyclopedia
Scientific
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Galliformes
Family: Phasianidae
Genus: Pavo
Species: P. cristatus
The Indian Peafowl, Pavo cristatus, is a species of bird in the peafowl genus Pavo of the pheasant family, Phasianidae. The Indian Peafowl is a resident breeder in India and Sri Lanka.
It is a forest bird which nests on the ground laying 4-8 eggs. It eats mainly seeds, but also some insects and fruit.
The Indian Peacock has beautiful iridescent blue-green plumage. His tail feathers have a series of eyes that are best seen when it is fanned. The female plumage is a mixture of dull green, grey and iridescent blue, with the greenish-grey predominating. Females lack the long tails of the male. The male is called a peacock, the female a peahen.
Peafowl are most notable for the male's extravagant tail, a result of sexual selection, which it displays as part of courtship.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Peafowl |
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