At some stage in my early life i used to be given a tiny piece of a lovely feather of a mayur, peacock, common, Blue or Indian Peahen Pavo cristatus. This become for using as a e-book mark for my Holy Koran. Later i found many Hindu class fellows used the same cloth as ebook mark for their Geeta. That became my first exposure to a Mayur artifact. We don't have any Mayur residing in the wild in Bangladesh barring a handful in some of our zoos.
Mayur turned into present in all of the Sal forests of the united states a century again. The remaining specimens of it were discovered in Bhawal-Mirzapur place of Sal wooded area in Dhaka all through the mid-Nineteen Eighties. however, I and multiple my former students failed to find any peacock inside the equal place during 1985-86. Mayur is such a big, incredible and exquisite, and raucous hen that it can't remain hidden in any woodland that we have in the united states in the meanwhile. i presumed it extinct from the character of Bangladesh by way of 1983-84. probable half a century lower back it became no longer a rare hen in the united states of america.
world Distribution: Mayur is a bird of the Indian subcontinent. Its distribution is unique. it is gift from SE Pakistan and Nepal to India, Sri Lanka, Bhutan and Bangladesh. Its range extended best up to greater Dhaka and Mymensingh districts that demarcated the easternmost boundary of the species.
extraordinary splendor: Male Mayur is known as a peacock and the lady a peahen. A Mayur is a cousin of our Ban Murgi/Murag or Junglefowl. it's a massive fowl with a prominence of blue, inexperienced, black, grey and white bar wings with reddish edges. The blue extends from head, face, and neck to breast with outstanding white bands over the face, inexperienced again, stomach and thighs. Peahen is much less colourful. Its face, decrease breast and stomach are whitish; again of neck is greenish; returned of the frame and tail are faded brownish with edges of wings and tail tip deep brownish. both have a very wonderful crest over the pinnacle that is slim at the base and wide at the pinnacle. Over all coloration of this peafowl is blue-green while the associated Sabuj Mayur, inexperienced or Java Peafowl is essentially a green chicken. Its crest appears extra like a pyramid that is quite contrary of the Indian peafowl. Sabuj Mayur is likewise extinct in Bangladesh. because of the prominence of blue Indian Peafowl it is also called blue peacock.
Tail or teach? The beauty of a peacock lies in its massive tail-like protrusion of a shape over the back of the tail known as a 'educate'. Peahen is with out a teach. The teach of the male Mayur grows only at some point of the breeding season. teach may have 100 to150 upper tail coverts which can be supported by way of 20 actual tail feathers. all the feathers of a teach are slowly dropped once the breeding season is over. most effective the feathers of the teach are decorated with special shade patterns equivalent to eyes and for this reason those are referred to as eye-spots or ocelli. these make the male Mayur so lovely.
most important feature of the train is in courtship. A peacock will display its teach fanning the feathers out like a large d1e51e9fa45a0b179488752ec4930123 fan. it's going to have a gaudy posture, step forward a piece, shake or jerk the feathers making a sort of rattling sound and approach the peahen. The peahen generally looks oblivious of the dancing male. Male dances almost for half of of the daylight. In every dance consultation he might maintain the train feathers upright for up to 30 minutes.
own family existence: Mayur is understood to reproduce just earlier than south west monsoon sets in. Male escorts women through mind-blowing dances and mounts the female while she is ready. A flimsy nest is constructed on the ground amongst foliage or below a bush.
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source-http://archive.thedailystar.net/2003/09/19/d30919180384.htm