Indian Peafowl

Our peafowl are free roaming throughout The Zoo and can be seen hanging out with a lot of different species in their enclosures.

Pavo cristatus

15-20 years

India

Peafowl are omnivorous and eat seats, fruits, vegetation, insects, worms, and sometimes small mammals or reptiles.

Peafowl are a great exhibit of sexual dimorphism. The males are bright and colorful to attract females and to distract predators from females with their chicks. The females are less colorful, often white or brown with no long tail feathers like the males.  Males are peacocks, females are peahens, babies are peachicks, and collectively they are peafowl.

Conservation Status

Threats in the Wild

There are currently no major threats to Indian peafowl and their wild population is stable.

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