Superb fairywren
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The superb fairywren is a passerine bird in the Australasian wren family, Maluridae, and is common and familiar across south-eastern Australia. It is a sedentary and territorial species, also exhibiti
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A pair in Ensay, Victoria, Australia
An immature male in Gippsland, Victoria, Australia. Young males usually develop a dark bill and blue tail before their first winter.
Splendid fairywren
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The splendid fairywren is a passerine bird in the Australasian wren family, Maluridae. It is also known simply as the splendid wren or more colloquially in Western Australia as the blue wren. The sple
Superb fairywren
…genus Malurus, commonly known as fairywrens, found in Australia and lowland New Guinea. Within the genus, the superb fairywren's closest relative is the splendid fairywren; these two "blue wrens" are also related to the purple-crowned fairywren of northwestern Australia. William Anderson, surgeon and naturalist on Captain…
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Male M. s. splendens in full breeding plumage, Yanchep National Park, Perth
Male M. s. melanotus Cunnamulla, SW Queensland