Pavo Real Común vs Swamp Francolin

Pavo cristatus comparado con Ortygornis gularis

Side-by-Side Comparison

Atributo Pavo Real Común Swamp Francolin
Nombre científico Pavo cristatus Ortygornis gularis
Orden Galliformes Galliformes
Familia Phasianidae Phasianidae
Estado de conservación Least Concern Near Threatened
Longitud 195,0 cm (76.8 in)
Envergadura 160,0 cm (63.0 in)
Peso 5000,0 g (176.37 oz) 510,0 g (17.99 oz)
Dieta Omnivorous — seeds, berries, insects, small vertebrates, and cultivated crops. Forages on the ground in … Eats seeds, roots, invertebrates, and small animals in Indian swamp grass and reed beds.
Tamaño de la puesta 3-8 3-7
Population Trend

Size Comparison

Body Length
Pavo Real Común 195,0 cm
Swamp Francolin
Envergadura
Pavo Real Común 160,0 cm
Swamp Francolin
Peso
Pavo Real Común 5000,0 g
Swamp Francolin 510,0 g

Habitat Comparison

Hábitats compartidos

Ninguno

Pavo Real Común only

Swamp Francolin 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.

Swamp Francolin

Canto

Harsh, grating 'kurr-KURR-kurr' calls from tall grass and reed beds; South Asian species. Alarm is explosive rapid cackle from dense cover. Contact calls between pair members are lower guttural notes.

Geographic Range & Migration

Pavo Real Común

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

Swamp Francolin

Resident of tall wet grassland and reed beds along rivers and wetlands in the Terai of Nepal, India (Assam), and Bangladesh.

Estado de conservación

Least Concern

Pavo Real Común

Near Threatened

Swamp Francolin

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

Swamp Francolin

Plumaje

Dark rufous-brown above with black and buff streaking; white throat; rufous-buff below with white shaft streaks and dark brown lateral flank stripes; red bill; legs red in male. Larger than …

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.

Swamp Francolin

A large Phasianidae francolin (~510 g) inhabiting tall grass, reedbeds, and swampy margins of rivers and wetlands in the Gangetic Plains and Nepal Terai. Boldly streaked rufous-brown. Dependent on intact floodplain grass habitat that is rapidly degrading. Near Threatened from wetland drainage and grassland conversion.

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