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SpeciesGalliformesPhasianidae
Birds

🐔Indian Peafowl

Pavo cristatus Linnaeus, 1758

蓝孔雀（学名：Pavo cristatus），又名印度孔雀，屬於雞形目雉科，是孔雀属两种孔雀之一。蓝孔雀主要产于巴基斯坦、印度和斯里兰卡。孔雀可能是人类饲养的最早的观赏鸟类，今天世界各地均有孔雀被饲养。孔雀是印度的国鸟，也是伊朗两种国鸟之一。

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Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2025.

Population trendIncreasing
Key measurements
Body mass
4.15 kg
Body length
not recorded
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
23 years
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Indian Peafowl

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
4.15 kg
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

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  • 4.2 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Tail length
0.4 m
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Wing length
0.45 m
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Beak length
0.05 m
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Tarsus length
0.13 m
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Maximum lifespan
23 years
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data quality: acceptable

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Gestation
29 days
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data quality: acceptable

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Litter size
about 5
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data quality: acceptable

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Trophic level
Omnivore
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Habitat
Forest
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Lifestyle
Terrestrial
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Volume l
4.2 Laverage
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Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.

average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.

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  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classAves
  4. ›orderGalliformes
  5. ›familyPhasianidae
  6. ›genusPavo
  7. ›speciesPavo cristatus
Full lineage
  1. classBirds · Aves
  2. superorderGalloanserae
  3. orderGamebirds · Galliformes
  4. genusPavo
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  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassSarcopterygii
  7. superclassTetrapoda
  8. orderSauria
  9. classBirds · Aves
  10. superorderGalloanserae
  11. orderGamebirds · Galliformes
  12. genusPavo
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Closest relative on this site
🐔 Chicken — last shared an ancestor ≈ 20 million years ago.
In other languages
蓝孔雀 (zh), paw indyjski (pl), pavo real (es), kék páva (hu), طاووس هندي (ar), påfågel (sv) … and 26 more languages
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