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