A Peacock at SweetCreek Farm Market in Alabama

This place is AMAZING if you like to buy local items.  

SweetCreek Farm Market, Pike Road, Alabama

This postcard was postmarked in 2024.

 

Black Diamond Peacock

Exotic Wildlife

Black Diamond Peacock (Pavo cristatus).
The male peacock will court a female by spreading his fanlike train, which is more colorful than the female's.

Photographer - Ron Kimball
2011

A Peacock

Peacock
from the Littlest Pet Shop
2010

Peacock with Real Feathers

Peacock Postcard with Real Feathers added on

I think the writing in the lower right hand means it was hand colored.  The back has the word Postcard written in several languages.

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I found this on the web about the color of peacock feathers:

As with many birds, vibrant plumage colours are not primarily pigments, but optical interference Bragg reflections, based on regular, periodic nanostructures of the barbules (fiber-like components) of the feathers. Slight changes to the spacing result in different colours. Brown feathers are a mixture of red and blue: one colour is created by the periodic structure, and the other is a created by a Fabry–Pérot interference peak from reflections from the outer and inner boundaries. Such interference-based structural colour is important for the peacock's iridescent hues that change and shimmer with viewing angle, since unlike pigments, interference effects depend on light angle.

(I think this means in very simple terms is that the colors look different depending on the angle that the peacock holds the feathers, so then the light hits them at different angles, and how far apart he spaces them - that is why when they move, the colors seam to change)