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Green peafowl Pavo muticus were once widespread throughout East and South-east Asia. Because of habitat destruction and excessive hunting, this species has now disappeared from most of its former range. In Java a few national parks in the lowlands form its last refuges, but small groups of birds still survive in vast teak plantations and rugged limestone hills in the central and eastern parts of...