Now he looks like a male!... next step ... dark feathers on the belly.
Some lines of peacocks have ... weird ... very slow!
Here, the young blue male 2018 have been for a long time in the colors of their sex!
Sometime, wild peafowls in India have weird moults ... too!
KsKingBee ... beautiful Dark silver pied young peahen !
Feathers of the neck ... scales gray border = female.
Short toes = female.
short head = female.
That 'hay' = female (picture).