Who needs squirrels when you can have peacocks.
The other day, I mentioned in an earlier post that I was going to post videos of peacocks from my old neighborhood but I needed to brush up on which were boys and which were girls.
Then someone mentioned:
Beautiful peacock. Pretty sure it's a peacock, not a peahen, because only the males have the elaborate tail plumage that they can fan out.
I see now that the suffix gives it away every time!
I CAN'T believe that this whole time, to me, peacocks were just peacocks. I had never heard the term peahen (female), peachick (baby) or peafowl (collectively). It’s still weird to even say peafowl… I’ve only ever heard them called peacocks.
They stay where they are happy.
So, these guys aren’t native to Texas; in fact, these are the kind from India, Sri Lanka or Pakistan. The boy peacocks are bright blue. The girl peahens are brown. I took a few videos so you can check out the difference. They live anywhere from 10 to 25 years so these guys are decedents from the ones that I had growing up. Apparently, peafowls are flocking ground birds and tend to stay where they are happy.
Can't help my voice.
And, please forgive my voice when I talk to the birds. I really can’t help it; my voice goes up a few octaves when I talk to babies, small kids and animals.
He's really sweet. I'm just a scaredy-cat.
She's just headin' home!
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Much Luv,