Any ideas on what this peafowl is variety wise?

[MinxFox]

I was looking at the Indian Nature Watch website at all the wild peafowl photos and I found this one:
http://www.indianaturewatch.net/displayimage.php?id=253138

What kind of peafowl is that? I saw a picture one other time of a wild peafowl that was a young peacock. He had the blue neck and everything but his wing was a light tan color with light tan barring. It was strange looking. Just wanted to share.

 

[FrankYLegend]

Interesting. It looks a lot like a black shoulder. Given these mutations started in the wild and are retained by captivity, it's not surprising they can still occur in the wild.

The bird is quite skinny and therefore can't be domesticated. People tend to say "peafowl can't fly well" based off of captive birds, that's just like comparing chicken flight to junglefowl! That's why I like wild peafowl better they're nice and lean

Some time ago on another forum Resolution posted a photograph of a wild peahen from some island off Sri Lanka; it too was an unusual mutation.

 

[Dany12]

This pic !

 

[deerman]

look like a cameo

edit to add yep just cameo ,looked at pic again not blackshoulder.

 

[zazouse]

My cameo hen looks like that, she is out of a bronze hen and a cameo peacock.

 

[peachick]

Quote:
shes a cameo... but her head/neck look more like a blackshoulder hen
edited to add... but she does not look like my blackshoulder cameos


Dany... COOL photo.

 

[Blob Chicken]

Shes a wild mutation. Chances are she's lacking some sort of inhibiting gene that wont let all the black show through properly.

 

[MinxFox]

Well that is the prettiest cameo I have ever seen.

I love looking at photos of wild India Blues, they are a bunch nicer looking then the domestic ones.

 

[Arbor]

Would be interesting to see if any other wild mutants abide in their native range and whether it would be feasible to undertake an importing of any of these birds? Anyone got any contacts there?

Dany - seen that on one of resolution's postings on the upa site