Pied Peacocks

A peacock with a pied pattern is known as a pied peacock. A pied is often described as a pattern mutation of a peafowl bird. This pattern can be seen in all varieties of peafowl birds. Pied peacocks originate from the Indian subcontinent and other parts of Southeast Asia like other peafowls. 

These birds feature traditional peafowl colors and a white mix that results in a striking pattern. However, their distinctive coloration appears due to a specific genetic variation and that’s the reason they are rare. The pied peafowl has a 60% colored and 40% white body.

Every peafowl inherits one colored gene from his father and one colored gene from his mother, however, a peafowl can’t inherit both pied and white genes from his one parent. A peafowl bird gets a pied appearance when both a white gene and a pied gene are present in a bird.

Moreover, the peacock’s feathers lack pigmentation due to the pied pattern mutations which result in white splotches on the peacock’s body. A pied peacock and peahen with any pattern or color will have white patches on their feathers. The patches’ size and number depend on a bird to bird.

A pied is not a color mutation but rather a pattern mutation of Indian blue in which an Indian blue peafowl has white markings or patches on its overall body. Indian blue pied peafowls carrying blue coloring with white patches on their train and back. The peahen is similar to a peacock with white markings on a blue body.

Variations of pied peafowls

Pied peafowls appear in so many varieties including peach pied peafowl, indian blue pied peafowl, etc. Every pied peafowl bird is different from other birds with the same pattern so you can imagine how many varieties of pied peafowl exist. The peacock birds are normally pigmented but splashed with white in different locations. Moreover, breeders from different places want to develop location-specific pied patterns.

A pied peafowl is a colored bird with white markings. The pied peacock has striking tail feathers. Their tail length is up to 6 feet. The pied peafowls have feathers with colored and white patches. They often show their beautiful feathers to attract a female bird. Additionally, you might see changes in their feathers when they reach adulthood.

The common difference between pied India Blue and Indian blue

The pied India blue peafowl and Indian blue peafowl are similar in looks, however,  the pied India blue carries two different colors. The pied India blue comes in Indian blue coloring with white markings on its overall body. Moreover, the pied Indian blue is a pattern mutation that is often represented as TP in genetic crosses.

After reading the complete article you will surely know how a peacock looks in the pied pattern. As we know these birds are always attractive but in a pied pattern, they look more astonishing. The white patches on the blue color body make their appearance more interesting. However, pied pattern is quite rare in peacock birds so it might be difficult for you to get a pied peacock.