Those who need help in sexing peafowl

[AnimalsRmyLife]

For me it's a female!
She had laid, she had brooded and she takes care of her chicks ... everything is normal except that color!
All these functions are governed by hormones .... female hormones.
Those who are looking for new colors? must find that peahen ... it may be a new line for another type of peacock!

At first it made me think of the female guppies whose color changes after hormone therapy.



We need a good private investigator to find out where this peahen lives !
http://faceless39.hubpages.com/hub/peacock-facts-and-photos#slide6476874
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2011-07-11-hyeres-7.jpg

..... good luck!

Says that Thomas Bresson lives in France, so maybe it was there?

 

[casportpony]

Unless anyone here has seen the bird in person I say a hen that color does not exist and that the photo has been doctored in some way.

-Kathy

 

[DylansMom]

Says that Thomas Bresson lives in France, so maybe it was there?

Yes, the picture appears to have been taken in France. The Nikon he used is similar to mine and it incorporates a GPS location in the Time/date stamp on the photos. So we know where the hen was located, but that unfortunately doesn't tell us whether the pic was photo shopped or not.

 

[Birdrain92]

Now days it's hard telling it was Photoshopped. I say it is Photoshopped because the head and crest is still brown which I've yet to see a male with a brown head and crest feathers. When I did Photoshop at school you could have two pictures opened up side by side and take qualities from one and add them to the other such as the blue neck and breast size and color. I don't know why someone would Photoshop it; just to get people to argue about it. The neck color and breast size look male but everything else appears to be a female. If it wasn't Photoshopped then there must be a mutation with that female. Or it's a male. Just for everybody to know I don't have any form of changing a photo except paint. Which that doesn't really change the photo that just lets me write and draw lines and shapes not colors.

 

[Rosa moschata]

There are .... anyway ... pictures that generate a lots of questions! ( not my bird - Thomas Bresson's pic!)

This same pic was posted in a facebook group to which I belong, and it generated a few questions about the coloring there as well. The person who posted it said that there was one male Afropavo hybrid which bred with the flock of (mostly) India Blue peafowl. The extended coloration can still be seen in some females several generations later.

 

[SunBaked]

I'm guessing it's photo shopped. The shadow doesn't quite line up with the angle of his/her neck.

 

[Birdrain92]

Look at the legs. Almost looks like it has 3 legs. Could be a stick but highly doubt it. With Photoshop look for things repeated or that don't match with the surroundings.

 

[Birdrain92]

Has a barring shoulder feather in it's neck along with just above the blue. Probably copied some details from a photo of a male and put some on the female. Head doesn't line up with the neck which shows in the shadow of the bird.

 

[AnimalsRmyLife]

Look at the legs. Almost looks like it has 3 legs. Could be a stick but highly doubt it. With Photoshop look for things repeated or that don't match with the surroundings.

3 legs??? I see one leg and a foot in the air...

 

[casportpony]

Look at the legs. Almost looks like it has 3 legs. Could be a stick but highly doubt it. With Photoshop look for things repeated or that don't match with the surroundings.

It's the foot. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/47/2011-07-11-hyeres-7.jpg

-Kathy