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These immature peafowl don't even have fully developed tail feathers - the full peacock train! Yet they are trying to do the peacock jig and impress females in their vicinity. For starters, they two males try and impress each other! Then they move to work on the female folk... Peacock is the National Bird of India and they are common in open forests and even urban areas. They are large birds with the distinct tail feathers opening up into a semicircle of blue and greenish rosettes. And this train of feathers is used as a mean of attraction by the males. Someone seems to have left grain out for the peafowl! Watch two peacocks compete for the attention of a female harem nearby by spreading the tail feathers. Notice the dance and spiral stunts the males show for the female attention. A juveni
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