Drawing challenge for week #16 ||Draw a peacock

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What is a peacock?

Though both the male and female are locally called peacocks, the female peafowl is actually called a peahen while the male peafowl is the peacock.

The peacock display is part of the ritual it performs during courtship hopefully to attract the pechen. The peacock has very long and colorful tail feathers with a center like an eye on each large feather as you can see on the picture bellow.
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Even when this feature could endanger the bird, as it makes it hard to hide, the bird prefer carrying this canopy as a trail.
Carrying a large trail is evidence that the bird is healthy and strong .

Peacock sleep on trees but often build their nest on the ground. The chicks often have brown colours. The peacock eat a wide verity of food among which are some plants, the petals of some flower , seed, most insects and some small amphibians.

What are some qualities of a peacock 🦚

Peacock are elegant, beautiful and proud of their looks as they deliberately show off their beautiful trails

Have you seen a peacock before? If yes, where?

I have only seen this beautiful bird on television and have not had the opportunity to see it up close in real life. I have seen turkey which looks a lot like a peacock. The turkey may be the reason why I think the turkey is proud.

Are peacocks important to man?

In ancient times, feeding on exorcist birds was a way to show your class and status and eating a peacock was the hight of status as it prominently displayed in a kings feast.
A lot of tradition and folklore states that a dream involving a peacock is a good sign.