#pavo muticus

[kedreeva]

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Pavo muticus peachicks, muticus and imperator subspecies together. They look to be about 2 weeks old.

#peafowl #peachicks #pavo muticus #i never get to see the babies #never this close either #they're so weird looking

[perfect-plumage]

Green Peafowl (Pavo muticus)

© eddy lee

#green peafowl #pavo muticus #phasianidae #galliformes #eddy lee #birds

[jareckiworld]

Ryu Kitazawa — Green Peafowl  (gold leaf, mineral pigment and ink on japanese paper mounted on wood panel, 2019)

#Ryu Kitazawa #japanese art #japanese prints #green peafowl #pavo muticus

[fabulous-fuckers]

Green Peafowl (Pavo muticus)

© jaraymk mekkaew

#green peafowl #pavo muticus #phasianidae #galliformes #jaraymk mekkaew #birds

[helluvatimes]

The Endangered Look

An endangered Green Peacock strutting around the former Jurong Bird Park. Photo credit: Jonathan Chua.

This was photographed against dark undergrowth and underexposed by a stop. Didn’t include its opened train as that might come across as too cliche, maybe next time.

Instead I captured its head held high against its feathers. At ISO200, I was getting a 1/125-second shutter speed but it was still quite adequate for the 600mm equivalent focal length. As this was a small sensor camera, I didn’t want to push the ISO any higher.

#photographers on tumblr #bird photography #bird pics #flora fauna #green peafowl photos #leica photography #Leica V-lux 4 #Pavo muticus #photography tips

[coffeenuts]

Green Peafowl - Pavo muticus by Jono Dashper Wildlife https://flic.kr/p/2otNjh6

#IFTTT #Flickr #greenpeafowl #pavomuticus #green #peafowl #pavo #muticus #animalia #chordata #aves #g

[herpsandbirds]

Green Peafowl or Indonesian Peafowl (Pavo muticus), male, family Phasianidae, found in SE Asia

ENDANGERED.

photograph by @andrew.fuchsia

#peafowl #pheasant #galliform #pavo #phasianidae #bird #ornithology #asia #animals #nature

[all-iridescent-birds]

What are the biggest and smallest iridescent birds?

Hello dear Anon! As our bird interest is a bit of a new thing, some research was in order to deduct our answer, and we're still not quite sure. However, we've given you our best attempt. For something perhaps more professional, you might want to go to a-dinosaur-a-day, who we believe is actually qualified to talk about this. We're just a guy obsessed with birds.

Now, explanation out of the way -- the smallest we can tell you with certainty. It is the bee hummingbird, a tiny, the smallest, in fact, bird in the world.

The bee hummingbird (Mellisuga helenae) is only 2 inches long. Females are slightly longer, but only by a small fraction, and usually lay two eggs, with them being the size of coffee beans. Let that sink in. While their iridescent feathers are not as notable as their other hummingbird relatives, they are still there, and still as shiny as ever.

Now, here's where it gets tricky. We're not sure what the biggest iridescent bird is. Taking a guess, we'd say it's the peafowl. But when you look this up, you don't get a concrete answer, which makes sense, because no offense, no one ever asks this question. But don't worry! We side with you here -- we're just as curious.

Well, we've been doing some math here. At first, we were thinking of the microraptor, wondering if a prehistoric bird would count before we remembered the peafowl exists. But we put it to the side. Then, we remembered the resplendant quetzal and its ginormous tail -- we looked around different pages and totaled the tallest possible quetzal to be around 4 foot on the higher end, but it still wasn't enough. So we looked up the peafowl.

The peafowl has 3 types -- all sharing traits but all fairly different in ways. The one we're focusing on right now is the green peafowl.

The green peafowl (Pavo muticus) is the largest peafowl of the three. As its name suggests, it is primarily green, while the indian is primarily a bluish color, and congo variants are kind of brown.

This is the bird we're talking about here. While maybe not in height (but probably in height), it's definitely in length. Males, pictured above, can be 5 feet and 11 inches at lowest to 9 feet 10 inches at highest. And its iridescence is everywhere, from its tail to its beak, basically.

Honestly, we'll be shocked if this isn't the biggest. Wikipedia describes the green peafowl as 'perhaps, the longest extant wild bird in total beak-to-tail length', as well.

We hope this answers your and anyone else's questions, Anon!

TL;DR: It's the bee hummingbird and green peafowl. Probably!

#and take this w a grain of salt #bird #birdblr #avian #iridescent bird #birding #birds #game birds #game bird #pheasant #pheasants #peacock #peafowl #peahen #green peacock #hummingbird #bee hummingbird

[reinekes-fox]

What's your favourite bird?

I actually have no favourite bird, but I do like the Pavo muticus, the green peacock.

It can be crossed with the well known blue Peacock and their offspring looks like this

#anon ask

[bluetapes]

V L Λ Λ M Λ

Peafowl

Pavo muticus

#V L Λ Λ M Λ

[empyrisan]

whats your top 5 best birds

Oh wow, this is tough.

Hard to narrow it down to just five birds, but here we go...

(Under cut due to the length of this post. Images are included.)

In no particular order: Great Philippine eagle (Pithecophaga jefferyi)

Indonesian peafowl (Pavo muticus)

Golden pheasant (Chrysolophus pictus)

Red-crowned crane (Grus japonensis)

Lammergeier (Gypaetus barbatus)

#tori talks #Honorable mention goes to the emu #What a cute and funky modern-day dinosaur we've got...

[kedreeva]

Are... are these peacocks? I don't know what else I would call them, but they... still don't look quite right to me? Idk, blue peacock supremecy I guess ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Yep! Those are young green peafowl (Pavo muticus). I don't have enough experience with the subspecies to tell which these are.

#asks #peafowl #green peafowl #Pavo muticus

[reportsofagrandfuture]

#proliferate them

[perfect-plumage]

Green Peafowl (Pavo muticus)

© Ken McKenna

#green peafowl #pavo muticus #phasianidae #galliformes #birds #ken mckenna

[animalids]

Green peafowl (Pavo muticus)

Photo by Christoph Keller

#green peafowl #peafowl #pavo muticus #pavo #pavonini #phasianinae #phasianidae #phasianoidea #galliformes #galloanserae #neognathae #aves #theropoda #archosauria #sauropsida #reptilia #tetrapoda #vertebrata #chordata

[birdygotback]

Green Peafowl (Pavo muticus)

© Panji Gusti Akbar

#green peafowl #pavo muticus #phasianidae #galliformes #birds #panji gusti akbar