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Modern birds like peacocks and peahens also have a crest that produces resonance.
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Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 22 Nov. 2024
The birds are commonly known as peacocks, though the females are technically peahens, and both are peafowl.
—Sydney Page, Washington Post, 21 Mar. 2024
Females are known as peahens, babies are peachicks, and the birds as a whole are known as peafowl.
—Jeffrey Kluger, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2019
One owner reports an especially amorous peacock with a tendency to try to mate not just with peahens but with trees, cars, cats, lawnmowers, and fire hydrants.
—Jeffrey Kluger, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2019
Wilson and Reinhorn currently have several pets including a peahen, a donkey, horses, pigs and dogs.
—Katie Mannion, Peoplemag, 17 May 2023
Peafowl, which includes male peacocks and female peahens, are not native to Texas.
—Shepard Price, San Antonio Express-News, 9 May 2023
To a peahen, a movie in the theater might look like a person rapidly flipping through slides in a PowerPoint presentation, rather than fluid motion.
—Carl Engelking, Discover Magazine, 27 Apr. 2016
For every peacock fanning out its dazzling feathers to attract a peahen, there’s another creature doing something strange, or downright deadly, in the name of passing down its genes.
—Kate Golembiewski, CNN, 14 Feb. 2023
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Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 22 Nov. 2024
The birds are commonly known as peacocks, though the females are technically peahens, and both are peafowl.
—Sydney Page, Washington Post, 21 Mar. 2024
Females are known as peahens, babies are peachicks, and the birds as a whole are known as peafowl.
—Jeffrey Kluger, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2019
One owner reports an especially amorous peacock with a tendency to try to mate not just with peahens but with trees, cars, cats, lawnmowers, and fire hydrants.
—Jeffrey Kluger, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2019
Wilson and Reinhorn currently have several pets including a peahen, a donkey, horses, pigs and dogs.
—Katie Mannion, Peoplemag, 17 May 2023
Peafowl, which includes male peacocks and female peahens, are not native to Texas.
—Shepard Price, San Antonio Express-News, 9 May 2023
To a peahen, a movie in the theater might look like a person rapidly flipping through slides in a PowerPoint presentation, rather than fluid motion.
—Carl Engelking, Discover Magazine, 27 Apr. 2016
For every peacock fanning out its dazzling feathers to attract a peahen, there’s another creature doing something strange, or downright deadly, in the name of passing down its genes.
—Kate Golembiewski, CNN, 14 Feb. 2023
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“Peahen.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/peahen. Accessed 30 Jun. 2025.
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