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The Proud Peacock

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Use the arrow keys to move between letters. Press Enter or Space on the first letter of a word, then again on the last letter. Press Escape to cancel.

A few of the words

TRAIN
A peacock's dramatic fan is called a train, not a tail, those long, decorated upper-tail covert feathers can grow longer than 5 feet on a mature male.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
OCELLI
The iridescent "eyes" on each plume are called ocelli, from the Latin for little eyes, their color comes not from pigment but from the microscopic structure of the feather itself.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
PEAHEN
The female of the species is the peahen; together, a male and female are peafowl, though the word peacock is so vivid it tends to stand in for all of them.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
COURTSHIP
A peacock's full courtship display involves more than looks, he vibrates his feathers to create a low-frequency sound, just below the range of human hearing, that peahens can feel as much as hear.Find this word in the grid to read its note.

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Peacock word search, free and playable right now without an account or an app, following that slow proud strut all the way to the fanned train.

About The Proud Peacock

Few sights in the natural world stop you in your tracks quite like a peafowl in full display. The male fans his towering train, not his tail feathers, but the long, iridescent upper-tail coverts, into a trembling arc of bronze, azure, and emerald, each plume tipped with a jewel-like eyespot called an ocellus. He shivers the whole fan until it hums, a slow-motion spectacle designed to catch every shift of light and the eye of every peahen nearby.

How to play

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    Find a word.Tap its first letter, then tap along to its last. The trail fills in and finishes itself when it spells a word. Or press the first letter and drag.
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    Words run in straight lines.Across and down, and on the harder difficulties diagonally and backwards.
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    It marks itself.Each word you find takes on its own soft colour on the grid and is crossed off the list.
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