Sunday, May 24, 2009

WHITE PEACOCK

The White Peacock is 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.



Peacocks, The term (peafowl) can refer to the two species of bird in the genus Pavo of the pheasant family, Phasianidae. They are best known for the male's extravagant tail, which it displays as part of courtship. The male is called a peacock, the female a peahen. Although commonly used, peacock is an incorrect term to refer to both sexes. The peahen is brown.
The two species are:
Indian Peafowl, Pavo cristatus (Asiatic)
Green Peafowl, Pavo muticus (Asiatic)

The Asiatic peafowl genus Pavo includes the familiar Indian Peafowl or Indian Blue Peafowl and the much rarer Green Peafowl or Dragonbird. The Green Peafowl breeds from Myanmar east to Java. The IUCN lists the Green Peafowl as vulnerable to extinction due to hunting and a reduction in extent and quality of habitat. Wild turkeys and imported peacocks crossbred in the wild to create a unique species named the Peaturkey. Native only to Charlestown, Rhode Island.

Traditionally, if anyone saw white peacock, your fortune turned better!
White peacock is a resemblance of good luck. One way to recognize its genuineness is that its shadow forms on the same side from where the light comes i.e on the opposite side of where it is supposed to form.

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