20 Beautiful Peacock Pictures

• By: Nate Kay

With its extravagant eye-spotted tail, the peacock (male peafowl) is a beautiful bird to snap a few pictures of. Interestingly, the vibrant color of peacock feathers is actually the result of how the feathers are microscopically structured. Slight changes in the spacing of the feathers’ fibers also change the feathers’ colors.

In fact, the pigment of peacock feathers is brown, only their nanostructure makes them seem blue, turquoise, and green. This unique coloration is also why peacock feathers look iridescent, since light angles affect structural coloration more than pigments.

Miss Peacock: “Am I beautiful?” by Lomoody

So why take so much trouble to look beautiful? Charles Darwin thought that peacocks provided a great example of sexual selection, but John Steinbeck had a different perspective: “Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance.”

In any case, peacocks are certainly beloved by many photographers.

Freedom … !! by Ivan Tasic

White peacock again by Tambako The Jaguar

Who’s a pretty boy?? by Louise Docker

Peacock by Paul Friel

Dancing Peacock by Hamed Saber

Looks like lots of eyes by Louise Docker

Shades of blue by Tambako The Jaguar

Peacock Tail, Long View by Tony Fischer

Peacock in the vegetation by Tambako The Jaguar

image by Shawn Rossi

Peacock Flamenco by Mark Wheadon

Fill the frame by Nina Matthews

Peacock by David Whitehall

Pauw by Greg Tee

Are you looking at me by LadyDragonflyCC

Eyes by Carly Lesser & Art Drauglis

Duo of Peacocks by Chantel Beam

Peacock taken from behind by Angela Bethell

Peacock display by Robert Gregory

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