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US
/ˈpiˌfaʊɫ/
]
[ UK /pˈiːfaʊl/ ]
[ UK /pˈiːfaʊl/ ]
NOUN
- very large terrestrial southeast Asian pheasant often raised as an ornamental bird
How To Use peafowl In A Sentence
- From terns to peafowl, there is a kind of continuum of different criteria.
- Pale-capped pigeon Columba punicea (VU) in the evergreen forest, green peafowl Pavo muticus (VU) and silver oriole Oriolus mellianus (VU) in the dipterocarp/deciduous forest and masked finfoot Heliopais personata (VU) from the riverside are resident. 53 species are considered nationally threatened or near threatened, including four species of hornbill, Siamese fireback pheasant Lophura diardi, the rare silver pheasant Lophura nycthemera and the mountain imperial pigeon Ducula badia. Dong Phayayan Khao-Yai Forest Complex, Thailand
- By one estimate, the peninsula's peafowl population has grown to about 1,000. Peacocks Are an Acquired Taste Some in California Don't Share
- It should be noted that a peacock is a male peafowl and a peahen is a female peafowl.
- By now very interested in peafowl, I began to make inquiries.
- He says he naively suggested a meeting to address the peafowl issue last year. Peacocks Are an Acquired Taste Some in California Don't Share
- But as more young professionals escape Los Angeles for the bucolic peninsula, there are fresh demands to thin the peafowl population. Peacocks Are an Acquired Taste Some in California Don't Share
- Despite their notorious long-distance calls, courting peafowl do not vocalize in that situation.
- The relative relationships of Pavo to the peacock pheasant, argus pheasants, and African peafowl are still somewhat unclear, but it seems likely that Afropavo is the nearest living relative of Pavo.
- Birds at the farm include 35 chickens, eight peafowl, a pair of bronze turkeys, geese, domestic ducks and 50 exotic birds ranging from a finch to a macaw parrot in an outdoor aviary.