Top 10 Birds with Big Tails
The Top Ten
1 Peacock
The peafowl include two Asiatic bird species (the blue or Indian peafowl originally of India and Sri Lanka and the green peafowl of Myanmar, Indochina, and Java) and one African species (the Congo peafowl native only to the Congo Basin) of bird in the genera Pavo and Afropavo of the Phasianidae family, the pheasants and their allies, known for the male's piercing call and, among the Asiatic species, his extravagant eye-spotted tail covert feathers which he displays as part of a courtship ritual.
The peafowl include two Asiatic bird species (the blue or Indian peafowl originally of India and Sri Lanka and the green peafowl of Myanmar, Indochina, and Java) and one African species (the Congo peafowl native only to the Congo Basin) of bird in the genera Pavo and Afropavo of the Phasianidae family, the pheasants and their allies, known for the male's piercing call and, among the Asiatic species, his extravagant eye-spotted tail covert feathers which he displays as part of a courtship ritual.
2 Great Argus
3 Albino Peacock
4 Raggiana Bird-of-Paradise
5 Greater Bird-of-Paradise
6 Lesser Bird-of-Paradise
7 Lyrebird
8 Long-Tailed Paradise Whydah
9 Golden Pheasant
10 Resplendent Quetzal
On the image, part of its tail is still in the hole of the tree
The Contenders
11 Taiwan Blue Magpie
12 Long-Tailed Widow Bird
13 Siamese Fireback
14 Silver Pheasant
15 Lady Amherst's Pheasant
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