Gorgeous woven korowai are adorned with feathers from kereru, peahen, pukeko and pheasant. |
The peacock, together with a peahen, flew into Peasehill Close last July and quickly took to roosting on the tops of greenhouses and garages. |
Probably for the first time ever, a peacock and peahen were sighted in a field adjacent to the wood in Gorterslin. |
He claimed the dog was shot as she went for a peahen after being suspected of savaging one peacock and traumatising another. |
But their future was in doubt after 2001 when a peahen and a chick left the gardens, and one of the two remaining males died. |
It was Charles Darwin who first noted that it is the choosy peahen who plays a crucial role in the evolution of this extravagant sexual display. |