Endeavour Blog » National bird of India http://blog.endeavour-japan.org Weblog for Seminar speakers Thu, 15 Jan 2009 08:41:14 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 White Peacock http://blog.endeavour-japan.org/2009/01/15/white-peacock/ http://blog.endeavour-japan.org/2009/01/15/white-peacock/#comments Thu, 15 Jan 2009 08:41:14 +0000 admin http://blog.endeavour-japan.org/2009/01/15/white-peacock/ National Bird of India
The Peacock, Pavo cristatus (Linnaeus), the national bird of India. It is symbolic of qualities like beauty, grace, pride and mysticism. Peacocok is a colourful, swan-sized bird, with a fan-shaped crest of feathers, a white patch under the eye and a long, slender neck. The male of the species is more colourful than the female, with a glistening blue breast and neck and a spectacular bronze-green train of around 200 elongated feathers it is able to expand its tail erect like fan as ostentatious display. The female is brownish, slightly smaller than the male, and lacks the train. These birds do not sound as beautiful as they look they have a harsh call. The elaborate courtship dance of the male, fanning out the tail and preening its feathers is a beautiful sight. The peacock is widely found in the Indian sub-continent from the south and east of the Indus river, Jammu and Kashmir, east Assam, south Mizoram and the whole of the Indian peninsula. Found wild in India (and also domesticated in villages) they live in jungle lands near water.
National bird of India

National bird of India

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