Tag: peacock
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Blue & Green
Two of the three species of Peacock are native to India, and they carry a lot of cultural weight, for example the Hindu god of war rides a peacock.
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Peacock Blue
These birds are fascinating in so many different ways. For example, did you know that the peacock is really known as an Indian Peafowl (the male is called a peacock, and the female is a peahen). What did this image teach me? Peacocks appear in quite a few mythologies. In Buddhism, for example, is the…
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The One-Eyed Peafowl
This fantastic green peafowl (peacock) seems to be quite happy living life with just a single eye (which, obviously, you can’t see in this shot). What did this image teach me? Whilst I have recently learned that there are such things as green peacocks, I have also learned that male green peafowl have harems of…
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Green Peacock
Sticking with the bird theme for another day, here is a rather haughty looking Green Peacock. What did this image teach me? That there’s more than one type of peacock out there! Who knew? Probably everyone but me.