What grows on a peacock's head

What grows on a peacock's head is a plume, also known as a crest or crown of feathers.

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Bird plumage is a kind of bird crown, for the protruding in all kinds of birds on the top of the head of the total, fan-like and other feather bundles or the top of the head of the feathers above the special prolonged or shrugged up. Often for sexual characteristics. Is the most popular decoration of birds, almost the vast majority of birds have their obvious or not obvious feather crown, especially the male birds, feather crown become the best weapon to show off.

Many birds do not have gorgeous exaggerated long tail, nor colorful plumage, but not without an eye-catching plumage crown, whether it is ugly vulture family, or has been magnificent peacock relatives, whether it is small and lovely tits brothers or fierce and tough crown eagle family, the beautiful plumage crown is always a worthy of showing off its decorations.

Some birds with crown feathers are named after the word "crown". Crested cormorants during the breeding season have a high crest and stand on the shore like a black note. The blue jay from North America is named after the blue feathers on its head. The white-crested parrot has what looks like a tuft of white feathers on its head. The black-crowned yellow bulbul has a black plumage, and although it is shy in its habits, its crown often rises when it is excited.

The Crowned Honeycreeper's plumage is colorful, and the dandelion-like white silky crown on its head adds a touch of playfulness. Crowned fish dogs have a well-developed crown of feathers on their heads, and when they stop, the ends of their crown feathers are raised, revealing a relaxed and calm demeanor as they sway. The curled feathers on the head of the blue-throated song bunting form a long, straight, bristle-like crest. The Crested Bunting differs from other waxbill buntings in having a unique plumage crown.

The Vertical Crested Penguin has a long tuft of soft, glossy feathers above the eyes, forming a crown of prominent coloration that can be raised or swung up or down to communicate with conspecifics. Only distributed in south-central Africa and prefer banana banana cuckoo belongs to Africa's most colorful birds, born with different colors of beautiful crown feathers; blue-crowned banana cuckoo has a blue crown of feathers, whistling will be open straight to the top of the head; green-crowned banana cuckoo, white-crowned banana cuckoo, red-crowned banana cuckoo and purple-crowned banana cuckoo and so on are also because of the color of its crown feathers and so named.

There are countless birds with crown plumage, the color of the crown plumage is rich and colorful, the style is even more complicated and wonderful: some are like silk, some are like a fan, some are like a lamp, some are like a straw raincoat, some are like a ball, some are like a shell, like a mushroom, like a mane, a variety of different colors.

The pipistrelle with a crown of long tufts of feathers on the posterior occiput, the Amazonian parrot with a mushroom-like crown, the vermilion pachyderm with a beautiful red crown, the tufted puffin with clusters of golden-yellow tufts of feathers above the eyes, the brown-tailed rainbow pheasant with spatulate tips of metallic-green long coronet feathers, the gray jay with a short coronet, the heron with two narrow spear feathers on the posterior occiput, and the male with a crown of long, dark-blue, brilliant feathers that continue up to a point in the middle. The famous ornamental bird with a long crown of dark blue luminescent feathers that are always upturned, the majestic pacific bird with a crown of feathers on top of its head, the mousebird with its fluffy head feathers, the forest mandarin duck, which lives in North America and has a green "beastly" head and is known as "the beautiful waterfowl of the bride", and the forest mandarin duck, which lives in North America and is known as "the beautiful waterfowl of the bride", and the forest mandarin duck, which lives in North America and is known as "the beautiful waterfowl of the bride". The forest mandarin ducks, the crested ibis that wears a willow leaf-shaped crown of feathers on weekdays, the heron crane that shows off its crown of feathers, the heron eagle (i.e., the snake vulture) that is a "secretary bird" with a plume on its head, the hammerhead stork that has its long crown of feathers that line up straightly with its beak at the back and makes its head look like a hammer, and the autumn duck with its two clusters of black braids of long, pointed silk crown feathers, and so on, are just a few of the many that you can see and see. The list is endless, so people are dazzled. The beautiful crown feathers bring people a beautiful enjoyment, but also leave people a good memory.

Reference:

Baidu Encyclopedia-Bird Crowns