It does matter. That’s why I asked.

Then give the context you require and answer the question. Why do we call the brown birds the female birds?

I need the context *from you.* Are you asking me this question as if I’m the gamekeeper? The groundskeeper? A biologist? A visitor to the grounds?

All the above will agree the brown birds of the female one. Why do we call the brown birds the female birds? And why are these two peafowl never going to have babies?

Being very precise, we call things names because those names are useful shorthand, not because our labels are absolute noumenal truth. If I look up at a cloudy sky with the wind blowing darker clouds towards me, and I say, "Looks like rain" but the clouds pass without raining...

Whether they will agree or they won’t agree depends on a lot of variables, which is why I am asking the question to begin with.

In this guide book, the brown bird is labeled as the female of this species. Please tell us why it is labeled female?

Did you ask the author?

I'm assuming this agreement occurs after he has informed all the visitors that the brown ones are female.

And if you were to state the converse, that the peafowl with eyes in their lengthy tail feathers are male, then you would have to define some peafowl with ovaries and thus egg cells as male, and this has been in the scientific literature since 1942.

I can't wait until this person learns about chimeras. You have earned cheesebux.

I am glad you brought up birds specifically, because avian sex differentiation is *wild*. Birds can exhibit bilateral gynandromorphism