Profile
In flight
Game Birds
Green Peafowl
Pavo muticus
- mythic
- 85 km/h
- Endangered
Asia's wild peafowl, taller and greener than its famous Indian cousin, stalking river flats in Myanmar and Java like a walking mosaic. A flagship of forests we are still trying not to lose.
- Population
- small and fragmented, roughly 10,000 to 20,000 mature individuals
- Habitat
- open tropical dry forest, riverine forest, grassland edges
- Diet
- seeds, shoots, fruit, insects, small reptiles and amphibians
- Size
- 1.8 m
- Wingspan
- 1.6 m
