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Copyright: Norbert Gorski (hekcik) Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 331 W: 15 N: 305] (1825)
Genre: Animals
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2005-08-01
Categories: Birds
Camera: Canon 350D, JCPenney 2,8/135mm, RAW ISO 200
Exposure: f/4, 1/800 seconds
Photo Version: Original Version
Date Submitted: 2005-08-02 16:50
Viewed: 1072
Points: 6
[Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note [Polish]
Peacock in fly :-)
Park Lazienki in Warsaw
Canon 350D, lens JCPenney 2,8/135mm

The Indian Peafowl, Pavo cristatus is a species of bird in the genus Pavo of the Phasianidae family. The Indian Peafowl is a resident breeder in India and Sri Lanka.

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.

The male is called a peacock, the female a peahen. The Indian Peacock has beautiful iridescent blue-green plumage. The upper tail coverts are enormously elongated and ornate with an eye at the end of each feather. The female plumage is a mixture of dull green, grey and iridescent blue, with the greenish-grey predominating. In the breeding season, females can be told apart from the lack of the long tail feathers also known as the train. Peahens can be distinguished from males in the non-breeding season by the green colour of the neck as opposed to the blue on the males.

Peafowl are most notable for the male's extravagant tail also known as a train, a result of sexual selection, which it displays as part of courtship. 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.

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52°12'49.00" N
21°02'11.53" E

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  • Great 
  • chiliu Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 1494 W: 0 N: 1175] (6494)
  • [2005-08-03 18:12]

Hi Norbert,
Flying Peacock! You are very lucky to caught one like this.
Excellent capture, very good details and catchlight in eye.
TFS!
Chi

piekny strza³, niespotykany i to jeszcze tego ptaka no no.. ;-) Super, sie normalnie napatrzeæ nie mogê
Lilianna

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  • osse Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 962 W: 0 N: 89] (7801)
  • [2006-06-06 19:39]

Hi Norbert
Wow I have miss this one. Great action shot. Good colours and sharpnes. I like the moving blur wings
Well done Norbert

osse

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