A Southeast Asian peafowl with green head and neck feathers. Males and females have similar colouring.
Mature males have a long train with eye-like spots. These are elongated feathers covering the tail base, rather than the tail itself.
Green Peafowl inhabit Southeast Asian forests. They use places with relatively open undergrowth and grassy ground. Open streamsides also provide display sites where males spread their trains. Streams and grassy patches within forest are parts of their habitat.
A 2017 paper described seasonal habitat use in western Thailand’s Huai Kha Khaeng Wildlife Sanctuary. Researchers used cameras at 70 locations across two areas during 2012–2014 and tracked one male with a small radio transmitter.
The tracked male concentrated near a stream in a small breeding-season range and ranged more widely outside that season. Cameras also detected peafowl more often near streams in the breeding season. Outside the breeding season, the tracked male selected places with high ground-vegetation cover.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.
The 2017 sanctuary study recommended protecting grassy, open-understorey habitat both beside streams and in the wider forest. Areas where patrols and other protection had reduced hunting and disturbance showed increased encounters compared with historical surveys. The authors recommended combining habitat protection with continuing hunting controls.