Texas Gardening: Dave has hooked another one., 1 by kenboy

kenboy wrote:
1lisac, what you have here is what is called ( Pavo crisiatus ) a Wild Type India Blue, meaning, that it is an India Blue species and color. The India Blue comes in six colors other than the Blue Wild Type, White, Cameo, Purple, Bronze, Opal, Charcoal and Midnight. They also come in four other color patterns, Black Shoulder,Pied, White Eyed and Silver Pied. Birds can be one color and be split to another. They can also have several color patterns. You can breed a Purple, Black Shouldered, White Eyed, Pied. Then you can cross the India Blue to the Green and Hybs, called Spaldings. So then you can have a Purple, Black Shouldered, White Eyed, Pied, Spalding Hyb..

The India Blue only has one species but the Green has three subspecies, Pavo Muticus muticus
( Javanese ), Pavo Muticus spicifer ( Burmese ) and Pavo Muticus imperator (Indo-Chinese ). The bird I have at the top of this thread is a Java Green Pavo Muticus muticus. All three subspecies of the Green are on the endangered species list and it is hard to find pure stock.

The rarest of all is the Congo peafowl; Afropavo congensis. This is one of the rarest birds in the world. I have never seen one in person but I have a friend who once in charge of all Congoes in the US. Price was 20,000. each ( not sure now ) and money alone would not get you a bird, you must be approved by a board first.

Here is a picture of an Afropava congensis, I think this bird was at the Bronx Zoo.