There are now many different peafowl varieties most are still not available the UK.

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The USA are the leaders in the world in developing new colours of peafowl.

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The United Peafowl Association as a result currently recognise 225 different varieties of peafowl.

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There are three species of peafowl green peafowl (Pavo muticus), Indian peafowl (Pavo cristatus) and Congo peafowl (Afropavo congensis).

Green peafowl are the only endangered peafowl species in the world.

The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species categorized Green peafowl as an “endangered species” in 2008. This was confirmed in 2012 and again in 2016. This status is a result of the species’ extremely swift drop in population. The population of adult green peafowl is somewhere between 10,000 and 20,000 birds. 

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Green peafowl were once common and widespread. 

The only sizeable remaining populations are found in dry forests in Cambodia, Myanmar and Vietnam.

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There are smaller regional populations of Green Peafowl in western and northern Thailand. Also Green Peafowl are found in southern Laos, Annam in Vietnam, Yunnan in China and on Java in Indonesia.

The Peafowl varieties chart shows the difference between the pattern and colour mutations. 

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In 2011 Peacocks UK (the peacock breeder and not the clothing chain) imported new peafowl varieties such as Bronze, Opal, Purple, Silver Pied and Cameo to the UK.

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