However, in recent decades the bird’s numbers in the country have fallen. In 2009 the green peafowl was listed as endangered on the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s red list.

Green peafowl (Pavo muticus) are thought to occur across 16% of their former range in mainland Southeast Asia, confined to a handful of isolated forests by a legacy of forest habitat loss ...

KUNMING, China, Oct. 18, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Phase one of the fifteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP) to the Convention on Biolo ...

Dozens of wild green peafowl appeared to forage at a temple in Thailand. The muster of colourful birds appeared at the Wat Tham Thep Nimit in Phayao province, signalling the approach of the cold ...

Peacock (or peafowl): any of three species of birds of the pheasant family Phasianidae. AKA: The male is a peacock, the female is a peahen and the babies are peachicks. All are peafowl. The ...

Green peafowl is a peafowl species native to China. It was listed as threatened in 1988, as vulnerable in 1994, and upgraded to endangered in 2009 on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.

Peafowl are part of the pheasant family, according to Britannica. There are three types of peafowl: blue, which are native to India and Sri Lanka; green, which are found from Myanmar to Java; and ...

Peafowl, historically valued for their iridescent blue-green beauty, have become intolerable nuisances in some parts of California. Francine Bradley, a University of California poultry scientist, gets ...

The green peafowl is China’s only native peacock, with just 500 estimated to be left in the wild after decades of excessive hunting, loss of habitat, pesticide poisoning and deforestation.

Black-shoulder pied peafowl feature normal blue and green coloration and white underparts, wings, and a spot under their chins. Black-shoulder peahens are mostly white with colorful spots. 5.

A blue peafowl in Tamil Nadu. Credit: K Hari Krishnan, CC-BY-SA-4.0. Comparative analyses of blue and green peafowls’ genomes reveal a striking contrast in the number of genes.