Pavo Real Común vs Lesser Prairie-chicken

Pavo cristatus comparado con Tympanuchus pallidicinctus

Side-by-Side Comparison

Atributo Pavo Real Común Lesser Prairie-chicken
Nombre científico Pavo cristatus Tympanuchus pallidicinctus
Orden Galliformes Galliformes
Familia Phasianidae Phasianidae
Estado de conservación Least Concern Vulnerable
Longitud 195,0 cm (76.8 in)
Envergadura 160,0 cm (63.0 in) 41,0 cm (16.1 in)
Peso 5000,0 g (176.37 oz) 724,25 g (25.55 oz)
Dieta Omnivorous — seeds, berries, insects, small vertebrates, and cultivated crops. Forages on the ground in … Feeds on seeds, berries, grasshoppers, and plant material in shortgrass prairie and shinnery oak of …
Tamaño de la puesta 3-8 6-14
Population Trend

Size Comparison

Body Length
Pavo Real Común 195,0 cm
Lesser Prairie-chicken
Envergadura
Pavo Real Común 160,0 cm
Lesser Prairie-chicken 41,0 cm
Peso
Pavo Real Común 5000,0 g
Lesser Prairie-chicken 724,25 g

Habitat Comparison

Hábitats compartidos

Ninguno

Pavo Real Común only

Lesser Prairie-chicken only

Pavo Real Común

Open forests, farmland, and areas near water in the Indian subcontinent. Highly adaptable and common near human settlements.

Song & Call Comparison

Pavo Real Común

Canto

Loud, harsh, repetitive 'may-AWE' screaming call, audible over great distances. Display calls are a mewing 'aaaow'. Peacocks call persistently at dawn and before rain.

Lesser Prairie-chicken

Canto

Males boom and gobble on lek: higher-pitched, faster sequence than Greater Prairie-chicken; reddish air sacs vibrate. Display includes cackles and wing-dragging. Alarm is a sharp repeated 'kek'.

Geographic Range & Migration

Pavo Real Común

Indian subcontinent including India, Sri Lanka, and parts of Pakistan and Bangladesh. Feral populations worldwide.

Lesser Prairie-chicken

Resident in shinnery oak and sand sagebrush habitat of the southern Great Plains in New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, and Colorado. Vulnerable.

Estado de conservación

Least Concern

Pavo Real Común

Vulnerable

Lesser Prairie-chicken

How to Tell Them Apart

Pavo Real Común

Plumaje

Males (peacocks) have iridescent blue-green plumage and an enormous train of elongated upper tail coverts with eye-spots. Females (peahens) are brown and cryptically patterned.

Pico

Short, stout, greyish-horn bill

Lesser Prairie-chicken

Plumaje

Barred buff and brown like Greater Prairie-chicken but paler; males have dark pinnae feathers and reddish-pink neck sacs; yellow eye-comb; female lacks pinnae. Paler overall than its larger relative.

About These Birds

Pavo Real Común

El pavo real común es el pavo real más conocido, nativo del subcontinente indio, famoso por la espectacular cola con ocelos de los machos.

Lesser Prairie-chicken

A medium-sized grouse (~725 g) of family Phasianidae, paler than Greater Prairie-chicken with crimson-orange air sacs in males. Inhabits arid mixed-grass and shinnery oak prairies in the southern Great Plains of the United States. Feeds on plant matter and invertebrates. Vulnerable; severe population declines due to oil and gas development, overgrazing, drought, and loss of native shrub prairie.

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