I vote for it just being the lighting. I’ve noticed that the older peacocks can look spectacularly different all depending on the lighting conditions they are in!
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He looks just like the one very first Windstone I ever bought in about 198? He is a peacock male with same coloring. The older ones are distinctly different from the newer peacock ones, I know, because I have both. It’s not the lighting.