One of the 4 peafowls on WAnimals
Birds · Galliformes · Phasianidae
Green Peafowl
Pavo muticus
Endangered
At very high risk of extinction in the wild in the near future.
The green peafowl is the East Asian relative of the common Indian peafowl, larger, more slender and a uniform metallic green rather than the Indian bird's blue. Its ornamental train can exceed two metres. It once occupied the whole of South-East Asia, from north-eastern India to Java, and today survives in populations heavily fragmented by hunting, egg collecting and the loss of the open dry forest on which it depends.
Weight
3 kg – 5 kg
Size
1 m – 3 m
Life expectancy
20 years
