| I've ogled the strutting pumped up peacocks that run in the men's 100 metres. |
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| In his Pride reserved for peacocks, it is shown statant affronty with the tail feathers spread. |
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| There were a few orange-tips, small tortoiseshells, peacocks and Camberwell beauties. |
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| If female peacocks are peahens, shouldn't female cockroaches be henroaches? |
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| Just beyond the bridge was a bird shop with a garden full of tall palms, and peacocks and pheasants in big cages. |
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| The peacocks cause considerable disturbance with their raucous cries, which usually begin at around 4am. |
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| In springtime the display of the peacocks ' plumage is a very worthy sight, so I hope steps may be taken to increase their number. |
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| I wrote saying that peacocks were a very good thing, and that wild ones were spreading across Somerset. |
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| They went back to the refuge of their hole happy, for they had seen a few peacocks, a few koels and a flock of doves. |
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| Over the years, the temple has became a famous sanctuary for tigers, deer, boars, peacocks, fowl, gibbons and horses. |
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| In some other species, such as peacocks, the female alone chooses her mate. |
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| They took pictures of displaying peacocks to count the number of ocelli, and captured them to measure tail length. |
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| Guests at Prestonfield can enjoy rural tranquillity, strutting peacocks and lowing Highland cattle without sacrificing access to the Royal Mile. |
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| To get there you must climb a kilometre long flight of steps, now a deserted forest path frequented only by babbler birds, peacocks and monkeys. |
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| The landscaped gardens are complemented by eastern temples, Nepalese pagodas and roaming peacocks. |
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| After basic training, the two had strutted like peacocks before family and friends. |
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| At Prestonfield you watch peacocks strut around manicured lawns before retiring to amazing stuccoed rooms. |
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| The extravagant plumage of peacocks contrasts with the drabness of peahens. |
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| I stayed with them in their base at Sukhum, a shabby old Soviet hotel with peacocks in the garden. |
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| Sargent is portrayed as modest, self-denying and unambitious, the antithesis of the preening Oxford peacocks. |
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| A muster of peacocks sang out an alarm call and all the deer around the lake ran for cover. |
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| On my arrival at the wildlife conservation center, I was greeted by a muster of peacocks and peahens. |
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| Caroline visits a Hampshire garden where the 102 acres include the soothing sound of streams, a Japanese garden, and a muster of peacocks. |
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| She added something should be done to protect the remaining bird, and offered any help necessary to ensure a future for peacocks and peahens in the gardens. |
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| Wood pigeon, pheasant, partridge, grouse, peacocks, hares, wild rabbits, and waterfowl are all dietary staples. |
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| Well known examples include the structural colors produced by brilliant iridescent butterfly wing scales and avian feather barbules, such as the peacocks tail. |
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| In addition to several peacocks, she owned mallards, pheasants, bantams, and a one-eyed swan. |
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| By the time the maids got back from the shore, peacocks had wrecked havoc on the waiting food. |
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| Imported birds such as exotic pheasants, parrots and peacocks were very popular and were kept in aviaries to be bred or shown to important visitors. |
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| For instance, male peacocks not only have a long tail, but they are brightly colored and have eye spots, a crest on their head, spurs on their feet, and a mating call. |
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| Yala National Park in the southeast protects herds of elephant, deer, and peacocks. |
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| The birds like swans, peacocks, parrots and animals like snakes, lions, elephants and horses were also favorites when decorating a lamp. |
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| The pride of eight peacocks and peahens had to be retrieved on several occasions after alerts from members of the public. |
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| Black swans are native to Australia and were brought to the UK as ornamental birds like peacocks and golden pheasants. |
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| I have just met on the grand staircase five peacocks, two guinea hens, and an Egyptian crane. |
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| They call it folie de grandeur, the self-deluding sense of importance that makes peacocks out of pigeons. |
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| Stinging nettles are used by beautiful butter-flies like small tortoiseshells and peacocks to lay their eggs. |
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| Showy peacocks attract more predators, but they outbreed drabber rivals just because peahens adore flashy tails. |
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| The building is partly occupied and there's a pretty little garden to the front, patrolled by peacocks and peahens. |
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| Buddleia has long been seen as the key species to attract colourful red admirals, peacocks and small tortoiseshells. |
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| Oklahomans Jim Campbell and Gary Tyler caught 123 peacocks by concentrating on the schoolies with jigs and other small lures that day. |
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| Attics, garages and sheds are also favoured by some of our most spectacular butterflies, such as small tortoiseshells and peacocks. |
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| Pheasants were hunted in their natural range by Stone Age humans just like the grouse, partridges, junglefowls and perhaps peacocks that inhabited Europe at that time. |
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| Thus peacocks display their plumes, while the peahen chooses. |
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| Confiscated wild animals include wolves, bears, ostrich, peacocks, roes, black kites, vulture, marmot, snow leopard, swans, ducks, foxes, carrier pigeons, owl. |
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| According to our sources at Kendall Bait and Tackle in Miami-Dade County, one of the best lures for summer peacocks is the classic Rooster-Tail inline spinner-bait. |
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| Some animals, such as lions or peacocks, would have been known in England only through descriptions in texts or through images in manuscripts or on portable objects. |
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| The Conservatory BUILT in 1786 by local man William Eborall, it offers a fine view from the terrace and is a brilliant place to engage with more than 20 peacocks and peahens. |
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