The upper and lower parts of a peacock’s plumage, the authors said, may work together in order to capture the fickle heart of a peahen. More to Read L.A. County ready to flip peacocks the bird ...

Among the birds of the world, it is usually the males who have the brightest feathers and the females who are the most drab, ...

She made a magnificent model, and wrote an essay that included the widely-held belief that the purpose of the splendid plumage of the male (the peacock) is to attract the female (the peahen).

When a peacock fans his plumage and struts his stuff, it's an impressive sight. Or so it appears to us humans. What really matters, of course, is what the female he's trying to impress makes of it.

A peacock and a peahen were rescued by NMMC on Monday evening. Most of their tail feathers were missing, indicating illegal trade of peacock feathers.

This is because all of these are signs of health and a superior immune system – traits that every peahen wants in her chicks. But not all is lost for males who have less than impressive plumage.

Do a peacock’s feathers, in all their iridescent beauty, really win the girl? Scientists put an eye-tracking helmet camera on a peahen to find out where her gaze lingered.

Though you can find peacocks fanning their fancy plumage in parks, farms, and zoos all over the world, these birds are native to Asia. They originated in India, where they are symbols of the Hindu ...

The bird that John was seeing was a peahen on Thursday, April 18. The term “peacock” is commonly used to refer to birds of both sexes. Technically, only males are peacocks.

In 1868, the naturalist Charles Darwin wrote that differences in plumage coloration between male and female birds of the same species were likely the result of sexual selection: Female birds ...