Male peacocks, also known as peafowl, are easily recognizable by their vibrant blue or green plumage and long, ornate tail feathers, also known as trains. This long tail is a key feature for courtship displays to attract peahens (female peacocks). The term “peacock” refers to the male bird, while the female is a peahen, and the whole group is called peafowl.
Here is one looking away at Sylvan Heights Bird Park.
Peafowl
A parakeet is any one of many small- to medium-sized parrot species, in multiple genera, that generally have long tail feathers. The two basic parakeet color types are green and blue.
Parakeets at Sylvan Heights Bird Park are in a small protected enclosure where visitors can feed them, and the birds sit on the visitors’ hands or heads.
Parakeet
Parakeet Grooming
Budgerigar or Parakeet
A nice combination of colorful flowers on green shrubs
Color on Green
The desert rose bonsai (Adenium obesum) is known for its bright, colorful blooms in the springtime. They do have dark green glossy leaves and do look very good when not in bloom.
Adenium Obesum Bonsai
A particularly popular bonsai tree is the Sageretia bonsai, which is also known as Chinese Sweet Plum bonsai or Bird Plum bonsai. This type of bonsai tree is native to Southern China and is part of the flowering shrub family; Rhamnacae. It has a bright green foliage.
Bird Plum Bonsai
This is a large fruiting Pyracantha. It is an Asian evergreen with small, bright green leaves and clusters of brilliant red berries that are bitter when raw but can be cooked into delicious jams, jellies, and marmalades. The Pyracantha blooms in April with starry-white flowers and berries from September through December. These Bonsai love sunlight.
Pyracantha Bonsai
Japanese black pine bonsai also known as the king of bonsai and the most iconic conifer in bonsai practice. Japanese black pine’s aesthetic speaks to its longevity and durability. This conifer is a very powerful, aggressive, masculine approach to bonsai because of specific features, including thick trunk, thick bark, angular nature, dark green color, and sharp needles.
Japanese Black Pine
This amazing tropical-looking favorite is grown as a dieback perennial. The fast-growing, thick, fuzzy, upright stems of Tetrapanax papyrifera are clothed with large, equally fuzzy, green castor bean-like leaves emerging from an underground rhizome. Rice paper plant will spread underground in good soils
Tetrapanax
Wakodahatchee Wetlands in Delray Beach, Florida offers a vast variety of birds and even green iguanas like this one that camouflaged itself
A beautiful sunset at the 18th green at Players Ridge Golf Course, Hickory, North Carolina
The orange-chinned parakeet seen in Costa Rica, also known as the Tovi parakeet, is a small mainly green parrot and some of the wing feathers are brown/bronze.
Dense leaves and lined up trees provide a natural, green canopy for shade on a busy street
The green anole is one of the most commonly encountered lizards in South Carolina, and is often incorrectly referred to as a chameleon due to its ability to change color from green to brown. Spotted this anole on the boardwalk of Audubon Center at Beidler Forest, South Carolina.
Colorful kayakers enjoy Lake Junaluska, North Carolina against a backdrop of green mountains and spectacular clouds
A vivid, red, bridge over a partially frozen pond leads to a snow covered golf green at Player’s Ridge Golf Course, Hickory, North Carolina
Taking a break from our previously scheduled images to post photos from the beautiful snowfall last week in Hickory, North Carolina. Mounds of snow at the eighth green at Player’s Ridge Golf Course.
A bench to enjoy the serenity of the North Carolina lush green landscape near Highlands
Rust and green patina doesn’t prevent this car, at Old Car City, from showing off it classic lines
Being in the forest for years, these junk cars and even a tire at Old Car City have incorporated natural shades of green into their original colors
Being in the vegetation for numerous years, junk vehicles at Old Car City have taken on the green patina of their surroundings
