Peacock in flight
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FLY AWAY
PEACOCK IN FLIGHT
Words and music by John Denver
FLY AWAY
PEAFOWL
PEAFOWLPeafowl are three Asiatic species of flying bird in the genus Pavo of the pheasant family, Phasianidae, best known for the male's extravagant eye-spotted tail, which it displays as part of courtship.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peafowl
PEAFOWLThe male is called a peacock, the female a peahen, and the offspring peachicks.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peafowl
PEAFOWLPeafowl are omnivorous and eat most plant parts, flower petals, seed heads, insects and other arthropods, reptiles, and amphibians. In common with other members of the Galliformes, males possess metatarsal spurs or "thorns" used primarily during intraspecific fights.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peafowl
PEAFOWLCharles Darwin first theorized in On the Origin of Species that the peacock's plumage had evolved through sexual selection. This idea was expanded upon in his second book, The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peafowl
Sunday, December 9th 2012, Chicago