Keith I also like the sound they make and enjoy watching them. I believe its probably found childhood memories of them at the zoo in Evansville . I went there a lot as a kid and later spent a lot of time as a docent( volunteer) that had gate axcess and would take animals to events and schools and give educational talks. Things like predator prey. Talks geared for the age group. I would thak thing like a kestrel, alligator, snakes, ect. Alond with animal parts for example owl and crow wings. Great to sho the difference in noise between the two moving through the air. The zoo made money offering the programs and it helped the under funded zoo and was fun to do. I love doing outdoor education.

My buddy had two: Earl and Marge. Earl was stunning but he drowned in the swimming pool…

That is a spectacular bird in the last pic. Are the white ones a specific breed, or just an aberration?

It's the same peacock in all 3 pictures taken over parts of 3 different years. He's probably 4 months old in the first picture. He will be 3 years old this Summer. He will get more spectacular over the next two years. Outside, in full sunlight, peafowl look much better.

There's around 200 different apparent colors in peafowl, counting base colors, patterning genes and pied. There's two main species of peacocks commonly kept, India Blues and Greens. Blues are more cold hardy. They readily hybridize and most of mine are crossed. I can get around 60 different apparent colors out of the peafowl I have. A lot of apparent colors take several different genes to makes. Whites are pretty common. Most are totally pied, rather than albino.

Keith