Hi you can find me and people about dragonbirds (green peafowls) in facebook...
1) google
2) write facebook
3) facebook arrive in your computer
4) write "dragonbird"
5) you find us and green peafowls.
clinton9
Purple peafowl plumage colors fade more strongly than other breeds of IB peafowls, the pre-moult birds with worn plumages have different colors than a post moulted birds with fresh plumages.
I had updated the growth of turkey tail feather.
Correction:
Adult 1-year-old male turkey's 380mm 1st adult central tail feather 1st took 57 days to regrow, while longest tail feathers take 60 days to regrow, Tail feathers 1st were shed on 1st March 2015 and fully grown...
For members who wants photos of mounted turkey wings & tails, for arts.
Above: adult male Bronze turkey.
Above: Immature male Bronze turkey
Above: Adult male Red Bronze turkey.
Above: Adult female Red bronze turkey.
Above...
On spring 2012 to autumn 2013 I studied 10 female domestic Bronze & Red Bronze turkeys four adults, five immatures, one 1-year old adult.
Average moult for adult female: 188 days
Average moult for immature female: 272 days
Adult females
1 took 140 days, 19/2/13 to 11/6/13
1 took 160...
I studied the Indian Blue peafowls in New Zealand, they are mostly kept by people, but there are feral birds that been shot as pest.
Breeding season November to January.
Moult season August of 1st year to September of 2nd year.
Peachicks in their 2nd month of age on March. Hatching month...
Yes please, but you need someone to hold the bird and spread its wing while you photo its wing. Be careful with peacock as it is in heavy moult.
Hold the bird by legs.
Dear SunBaked,
Thankyou for photos of your beautiful Black-shouldered peacock, ...I suggest you would photo the peacock when he spread his wings, after waking from afternoon nape or when he is dust-bathing or sunning itself, with spread wing.
Dany12...
Zaz,
I think you did not know about falconers and about hoods for calm these birds as falconers and eagles.
I suggest you google about falconers and find out. Eagles & birds of prey are nervous birds and to calm these birds, the falconers putting hoods over their heads, otherwise...
There are two options for photoing spread wings of alive peafowls:
1) Like handling Bald eagles and birds of prey, using the hoods to calm the eagles, you would use the dark-coloured socks to cover the heads of peafowls, or borrow the hoods of falconers for calming your peafowls when you...
Hi Dany12
You were wrong, I were asking the members to send me the photos of open wings of peafowl mutations.
I did not have new drawings of peafowls in flight, because these members did not sent me the photos yet.
With no photos, I cannot make new drawings of peafowls...
Hi Alea,
Be careful, in case your eggs might came from hybrid / spalding peafowls that were falsely labelled as pure Java green peafowls.
You could put eggs under IB peahen, but mark the egg with word "G", but you have to rear the Green peachicks yourself otherwise chicks will...