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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

The green peafowl has green and golden scale-shaped feathers on its neck and chest, and the blue one blue and filamentous feathers. Their face colors, calls and some living habits also differ.

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.

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.

Increasing forest cover by interconnecting protected areas and river banks will encourage new wetland forests, thereby enabling the peafowl’s predators to once again spread and control the numbers, he ...