Common Peacock-dove

This bird was named after Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon.

Peacock-doves are doves, not peacocks, but this is an example of convergent evolution between peacock-pheasants, or tandikan, in Palawan and ordinary peacocks from Indonesia and the Indian Subcontinent. Common or sapphire peacock doves have a blue color scheme, which resembles a peacock pheasant's tail feathers. This head was a mask like an Indian peacock.

The common peacockdove was a sexually dimorphic species. The male one has blue on the head and neck, and the female is covered with tan feathers, which both have green, cyan, blue-green, and light cyan feathers on each part. Their male legs are bright red, which was formerly orange during chickhood, and the females have brownish-colored legs. Their beak was matched for pigeon and gray color. The body appeared chubby and yet elegant. Also, the common peacockdove has three black lines with white eye patches on the reddish orange skin color of the eye.

The tail of the common peacock-dove was different, as reminiscent of the Palawan peacock-pheasant; the eye was on the tip of the tail; the female had a single row; and the male had a single row of sapphire-colored eye patterns on each with two pairs of tail feathers. Their crest was stick-and-club-shaped, and bright cyan. The common peacock-dove is larger than a hen and taller than an average Nicobar pigeon.

It isn't an act of vanity, though—peacock-doves fan out their feathers as part of a courtship ritual to attract a mate. The powerful calls of the peacock-dove make them easy to hear, and in forests, they frequently signal the arrival of a predator like a tiger or people. They hunt on the ground in small groups and typically try to flee on foot through brush in order to avoid taking to the air, though they occasionally do so to roost in higher trees.

Peacock-doves are highly invertivorous, taking isopods, earwigs, insect larvae, mollusks, centipedes, and termites, as well as small frogs, drupes, seeds, and berries. They are strictly monogamous, renesting yearly. The female usually lays up to two to six eggs, either in a tree or on the ground. They may act as seed dispersers for certain fruiting plants that they feed on. When the female is up close, the male begins shaking and rattling his wings.

Similar to actual peacock courtship, which can have the ability to get close to the female so that her "eyes" are more iridescent than usual, Palawan peacock-pheasants execute courtship, in contrast to other peacock-pheasant species. Peacock-doves are graceful and usually peaceful, but depending on the circumstances, they may become aggressive. Whether they are domesticated or wild, they are unpleasant pests, especially when they are fighting for food or defending their nests from intruders. They are particularly aggressive during the mating or breeding season.

This common peacock-dove, which is like Indian peafowl and Palawan peacock-pheasant as a result of sympatric speciation from fruit doves, has been introduced to North Macedonia, Serbia, the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Mexico, Honduras, Costa Rica, Colombia, Guyana, Suriname, Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina, South Africa, Spain, Portugal, India, Italy, Madagascar, Mauritius, Reunion, Malaysia, Brunei, Guam, Papua New Guinea, Australia, New Zealand, Croatia, and the Lokrum to Jawa, Davao, Timor Leste, Christmas Island, and Tawi-Tawi.

This original location was none other than Greece as an endemic species, a descendant of the balorinay, or yellow-breasted fruit dove, of the Philippines, thanks to the evolutionary process obscured. Its natural habitat is tropical to temperate, from moist lowland forest to plains. The fact of the accidental creation of this species was that Greece and the Philippines established their bilateral, diplomatic, and trade relations, as well as the experiment with this bird.

• Movement Pattern: Not a Migrant

• Individual Type: Solo

• Population Trend: Stable

• Population: 600,000

• Locomotion: Aerial

• Habitat: Taiga; Montane Grasslands and Shrublands; Temperate Coniferous Forests; Temperate Broadleaf and Mixed Forests; Temperate Deciduous Forests; Temperate Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands; Subtropical Coniferous Forests; Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests; Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests; Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands; Salt Flats; Stone Forest; Tropical Coniferous Forests; Tropical Moist Broadleaf Forests; Tropical Dry Broadleaf Forests; Tropical Grasslands; Tropical Savannas and Shrublands; Mediterranean Forests, Woodlands, and Scrub; Mushroom Forests; Mushroom Fields; Deserts and Xeric Shrublands; Badlands; Flooded Grasslands and Savannas; Swamp; Bayous/Billabongs; Riparian; Wetland; Mangrove Forest; Cold Bamboo Forests; Tropical Bamboo Forests; Air-breathing Coral Reefs; Graveyard Vale; Mountain; Lush Cavern; Volcano; Ruined Skyscraper.

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  • Extant: Greece

The Peacock-dove makes a good pet. Throwing the egg will tame it if you are within nine radius of it. If it was not tamed at birth, the user must either hand-feed it or use a whip to forcibly tame it.

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• Greek: κυανός παγώνι-περιστέρι (kyanós pagóni-peristéri), κυανός ταώς-περιστέρι (kyanós taós-peristéri)

• Albanian: Pallua-pëllumb, Tymbalërinoj

Berbania/Hirawhassa

• Inorthian: Ghor'vuu idher, Paboreal-paloma idherron

• Corachan: Paboreal-paloma komon, Gorrok komon

• Dinojerullese: Paboreal-pižu' kommona, Paboreal-pižù' anokseng

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