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Red-backed fairy wren
Malurus melanocephalus
-21.146, 149.189
Field Notes
Description:
The male red-backed fairy wren adopts a striking breeding plumage, with a black head and upperparts and tail, and brightly coloured red back and brown wings.
Habitat:
The red-backed fairywren is endemic to Australia and can be seen along rivers and the coast from Cape Keraudren in northern Western Australia through the Kimberleys, Arnhem Land and the Gulf Country and into Cape York, with the Selwyn Range and upper reaches of the Flinders River as a southern limit. It is also found on the nearby offshore islands Groote Eylandt, Sir Edmund Pellew, Fraser, Melville and Bathurst Islands. It then occurs all the way down the east coast east of the Great Dividing Range to the Hunter River in New South Wales, preferring wet, grassy tropical or sub-tropical areas, with tall grasses such as bladygrass (Imperata cylindrica), species of Sorghum, and Eulalia. -wikipedia
Notes:
Playful birds and they are not shy when approaching humans but gets to hiding quickly when it sees a predator.
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