Male peafowl, Pavo cristatus, courtship display.
This is a feral peafowl that lives a backyard in Eastern Tennessee.
His name is Big Bird.
Image: by Molly, a reader's sister.
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Very pretty. There are a variety of feral and privately owned peacocks where I live, so I see these beautiful displays now and then in the right season.
East Tennessee. Like West Virginia, North Carolina/Dakota, South Ditto ... it's just not its own state (ah, poor Franklin!)
Gorgeous, isn't he?
I knew of one that wondered off, just like him, big and pround, and in east Tn. Usually seen on large farms, not a good pet fenced in, good watch birds.
State of Franklen
I'd known previously that some settlers had once declared East Tennessee a state in its own right, under the name Franklin. But I'd never known so much about it.