Tour Scotland photograph of a Peacock, Scone Palace, Perthshire, Scotland. The Peafowl include two Asiatic bird species, the blue or Indian peafowl originally of India and Sri Lanka and the green peafowl of Myanmar, Indochina, and Java, and one African species, the Congo peafowl native only to the Congo Basin, of bird in the genera Pavo and Afropavo of the Phasianidae family, the pheasants and their allies, known for the male's piercing call and, among the Asiatic species, his extravagant eye spotted tail covert feathers which he displays as part of a courtship ritual. The term peacock is properly reserved for the male; the female is known as a peahen, and the immature offspring are sometimes called peachicks.
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