For 27 years, I ran a folk concert series, and we had outdoor concerts during the summer. If you think Pea fowl are beatiful, try having a couple of them sitting on the peak of the roof on a massive English Tudor mansion making that God-awful sqwauking call while someone is trying to sing. They never seemed to fail to fly up onto the roof in the evening where the concerts were held. Who says God doesn't have a sense of humor? Anyone who could make such a beautiful, dumb bird with such an ear-shattering call has got to have one. And dumb? The Pea Cocks would spend hours vainly displaying their beautiful fan tails in front of ducks and chickens. Meanwhile, the pea hens would be sitting over in a corner of the farm doing their nails. Makes you wonder where the Pea Chicks came from.
Jerry