Green Peafowl

How to identify

Field marks

1. Male's train about 1.5 m long in the breeding season, with eyespots
2. Neck and breast feathers shimmer emerald-green, like dragon scales
3. Crest on the crown, finer and taller in the male
4. Face has two pale blue-white stripes and a yellow-orange crescent beside the ear

Male, female and young

Female lacks a long train and is less colorful; male sheds its train after molt, making the sexes distinguishable only at close range.

Voice

Male often gives a loud, repeated “ki-wao” from the roost at dawn and dusk; female gives an equally loud “AOw-aa”.

Where and when it's recorded

Green Peafowl has been recorded at 60 of the 8,171 birding hotspots we track, in 7 countries and regions.

Records by month Northern Hemisphere

To protect this bird from disturbance, we don't list exact sites.

Countries and regions with the most records

VietnamThailandCambodiaIndonesiaMyanmar (Burma)MalaysiaSingapore

eBird records via GBIF up to 2024-12-31. A record means someone listed it; more records partly mean more birders, not more birds.

About

The green peafowl (Pavo muticus) is a peafowl species native to the tropical forests of Southeast Asia and Southern China. It is the national bird of Myanmar. Formerly common throughout Southeast Asia, only a few isolated populations survive in Cambodia and adjacent areas of Vietnam.

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