Indian Peafowl (Peacock)

The Indian Peafowl is a large, colorful pheasant famous for the male's spectacular courtship display featuring an elongated train of eye-spotted coverts.

Features a striking central iridescent 'ocellus' with a deep blue-purple inner core, bordered by cyan, yellow-gold, bronzy brown, and brilliant iridescent emerald green.

Densely packed pennaceous barbs forming a smooth, flat surface around the central ocellus, transitioning to separated, iridescent barbs lower down.

Silky, highly smooth, and glossy with metallic iridescence that changes color depending on the angle of light.

Distinctive central eye-spot (ocellus) surrounded by iridescent rings of blue, green, bronze, and gold.

Open forest, scrubland, cultivated farmland, and deciduous forests near water sources in its native range; widely kept in captivity worldwide.

Native to the Indian Subcontinent (India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan); introduced as domesticated/ornamental birds globally.

Omnivorous ground forager that eats seeds, insects, small reptiles, and young snakes; serves as prey for large felids in its native wild range.

Green Peafowl (Pavo muticus) has slightly different bronze-green hues and scale-like neck patterns; Congo Peafowl (Afropavo congensis) lacks large eye-spots.

The brilliant colors are created by photonic crystal structures (structural coloration) rather than pigment, refracting light like tiny prisms.

Excellent condition; intact barbs, bright structural iridescence, neatly trimmed stem at the base for decorative display.