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Superb Fairy-Wren

Malurus cyaneus

Photo by Megs18
Published on Project Noah
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Field Notes

Description:

Superb Fairy-Wren males are the brilliant blue coloured birds. The females are not as colourful as seen above. They have rich blue and black plumage above and on the throat. The belly is grey-white and the bill is black. Females and young birds are mostly brown above with a dull red-orange area around the eye and a brown bill.

Habitat:

They are insect eating birds and are common in urban parks and gardens.

Notes:

These two wrens were very friendly and we watched them for a while.

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Comments (5)

both of them are so pretty!
Wow, LOVE the shots of the female. She's beautiful.
They are hard to capture! I was lucky that there seemed to be lots of insects on the path.
Good shot Megs18. They still won't keep still for me.
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PublishedSeptember 29, 2012

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