THE PICTURE : Indian peafowl is National
Bird of India. The gorgeous ocellated ‘tail’ of a adult cock 1-1,5 m long. Peafowl
has mottled brown with some metallic green on lower neck. Usually it is seen
one cock with 4-5 peahens, locally semi-domesticated about villages &
cultivation. Peafowl inhabits dense scrub and deciduous jungle, plain
foorhills, preferably in neighborhood of rivers, streams. Always exclusively
shy and alert. It dances with ocellated tail when monsoon is nearing. It loves
to eat grains, vegetable shoots, lizard & snakes too. Peafowl’s nesting
season is January to October.
THE STAMP : It has 3
kind of stamps. The first (left) is Mahatma Gandhi stamp. The second stamp (top
left) is bhakra dam stamp. This stamp issued on 2013. And, the last, is
children day’s stamp. This stamp issued on 2013 to celebrate childern day’s.
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