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The brilliant iridescent colors of the peacock's tail feathers are created by structural coloration, as first noted by Isaac Newton and Robert Hooke.. Structural coloration in animals, and a few plants, is the production of colour by microscopically structured surfaces fine enough to interfere with visible light instead of pigments, although some structural coloration occurs in combination ...
A peacock spreading his tail, displaying his plumage Peahen. Peafowl is a common name for two bird species of the genus Pavo and one species of the closely related genus Afropavo within the tribe Pavonini of the family Phasianidae (the pheasants and their allies). Male peafowl are referred to as peacocks, and female peafowl are referred to as ...
The cluster with the most pixels becomes the dominant color. This article originally appeared on Rochester Democrat and Chronicle: How birds get their colors. A visual guide to our gorgeous friends.
For example, some male birds-of-paradise have wing or tail streamers that are so long that they impede flight, while their brilliant colours may make the males more vulnerable to predators. In the extreme, sexual selection may drive species to extinction, as has been argued for the enormous horns of the male Irish elk, which may have made it ...
The bird featured in the video, and the one that most people think of when they picture a peacock, is an Indian blue peafowl (Pavo cristatus) although they are commonly called simply Indian ...
The birds, which are native to India and Sri Lanka, were brought to Miami to be exotic yard ornaments, or so the story goes. In the 1920s and ’30s, people put classified ads in the Miami Herald ...
The Indian peafowl's size, color and shape of the crest make them easily identifiable within their native distribution range. [11] It displays a marked form of sexual dimorphism . [ 12 ] [ 13 ] A male peafowl or peacock is a larger sized bird with an average bill to tail length of 100–120 cm (40–46 in) and as much as 200–230 cm (78–90 ...
Peacocks are beautiful, peacocks are so sweet — wrong. Peacocks are menaces. Well, one peacock was a menace to two Golden Retrievers who happened to cross its path. The bird was not having it ...