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The Peacock was traditionally a woodland species.
What average distance does one think there was, in their locality between:
Dispersal from Garden Shed (hibernating position) to suitable egg laid nettle bed?
and
Male dispersal from log pile (sheltered dark space, camouflaged when wings closed) to suitable female near nettle bed, after getting energy for something, first.
Kind Regards

On Hutchinsons Bank they use an old fox hole for hibernation, you can see numbers emerge on hot days, and their path for the males sunning is next to this, so they dont go that distance, and are often challenging other STorts and Commas, along with other Peacock, this area does not have any stinging nettles, so on our site the females disperse to lay the eggs.

The Pill boxes near Dorking have many peacocks in the Autumn, again the paths they like are very close by, this time i think there are nettlebeds too for them.

The local peacocks and small torts use our church bell tower as a hibernaculum. I counted 19 and 11 respectively when doing a bit of bell maintenance back in January and I am sure there must have been many more tucked out of sight.