Peacock (Peafowl) Dance at Vadavalli, Coimbatore
Channel: Mithul Ashokkumar
Date: 01/03/2021

This video was taken during my last visit to Coimbatore, India. Usually, we use to see a lot of peacocks behind our home, and most of the time we used to see the peacock dance but never get a chance to record it. Finally, one warm day I get a chance to see the peacock dance and able to record it. Hope you all enjoy this video.

The male peacock is brightly colored, with a predominantly blue fan-like crest of spatula-tipped wire-like feathers, and is best known for the long train made up of elongated upper-tail covert feathers that bear colorful eyespots. These stiff feathers are raised into a fan and quivered in a display during courtship. Despite the length and size of these covert feathers, peacocks are still capable of flight. Peahens lack the train and have a greenish lower neck and duller brown plumage. The Indian peafowl lives mainly on the ground in open forest or on land under cultivation where they forage for berries, grains but also prey on snakes, lizards, and small rodents. Their loud calls make them easy to detect, and in forest areas often indicate the presence of a predator such as a tiger. They forage on the ground in small groups and usually try to escape on foot through undergrowth and avoid flying, though they fly into tall trees to roost.