Malurus
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Fairy Wrens – Australian wildlife – Superb Fairy Wren This photographic montage features the / dear little Australian: Superb Fairy Wren. I have spent many rewarding and challenging / hours in the great outdoors finding and / photographing some of Australia’s wonderful wildlife. / (No zoo or captivity shots). You may also want to look at another photo montage / I have done of Small birds of the Victorian bush. I will be donating a portion of any sales to wildlife / conservation or welfare. More birds and wildlife here Thankyou for visiting!
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The endearing little / Superb Fairy Wren. More birds and wildlife here Read about my wildlife photography here
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Splendid Fairy Wrens – male and female. / The male has the bright blue plumage. More birds and wildlife here Read about my wildlife photography here
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Mirror Mirror in the Lake / Show me the insects I can take Blue Wren / Malurus cyaneus / Lake Edward / South Australia Copyright Wayne Bigg / All Rights Reserved. / Do not use, replicate, manipulate, redistribute, or modify my photography without my express consent.
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Variegated Fairy-wren Malurus lamberti. Photo taken at Lake Moondarra near Mt Isa, Queensland.
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Just mucking about on my day off / Superb Blue Wren – Male / Malurus cyaneus / Millicent / South Australia Copyright Wayne Bigg / All Rights Reserved. / Do not use, replicate, manipulate, redistribute, or modify my photography without my express consent.
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Red-backed fairy wren (Malurus melanocephalus) "Just checking, are my RED feathers showing enough?"
by NormfThe Red back Fairy Wrens are the only Australian Fairy Wrens that do NOT have a blue pigment. Tiny birds that frequent the coastal heathland and often called Elfin Wrens. This male was trying to display his red feathers for the ladys in the area (who are just as pretty but plain brown).
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Variegated Fairy-wren Malurus lamberti. This one is a male moulting into its breeding plumage evident by the coloured feathers appearing on its face. Photo taken in Myall Lakes National Park, NSW.
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Superb Fairy-wren Malurus cyaneus. The male is the colourful one. Photo taken in the Myall Lakes National Park, NSW.
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Superb Fairy-wren Malurus cyaneus. Photo taken in the Myall Lakes National Park, NSW.
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My wife and I travelled to the Yarra Valley in northern Victoria one morning of October 25, 2008. We stopped at the winery of de Bortoli. We tasted some wines and then purchased one bottle of de Bortoli Sauvignon Durif with cheese strips. While sipping and chewing I was holding my camera with finger on the shutter button ready to take snapshots of the little birds that were flying and jumping around. Fortunately some of the little birds like this superb fairy wren came nearby. They really made my day.
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Splendid !
by inAWEThe male Splendid Wren or Splendid Fairy Wren (Malurus splendens) is definitely a striking and charismatic little bird. Don’t be fooled by his tiny size! This bird has the attitude of an emu….and a voice befitting a choir of other birds. / Where I live, the “blueys” start singing before the sun comes up, at times they are deafening (a strange word to describe their delicate warbling you might think until you experience it for yourself!)....and though I should not complain about the beautiful and melodious sound of their song….....sometimes in the early hours of the morning I really have felt like opening the window and shouting “Give it a rest!”. / Rumour has it that “it is all about procreation” and these sexy little boys spend their days trying to impress the females and chase the other blueys away….only stopping to sing their hearts out again and again…... I followed this little one around the garden to see what it was he had in his beak. He carried it with him for quite some time…..it seemed to be a small pink flower….maybe a gift for his little mate – the female wren who was guarding the nest….? Or maybe for the mistress he had on the side!!! All proceeds from the sale of this image and any other in this profile will go to the Wildlife Appeal to assist the silent victims of the bushfires in Australia.
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The Splendid Wren, (Malurus splendens) or as we call them here in the south west, the “Blue Wren”, is the biggest flirt I know. Apart from singing their hearts out from dawn till dark, and chasing the ladies one way, and the other blue boys away the other….these little birds have attitude and charisma aplenty…... This one seemed to be carrying around a small pink flower, perhaps to win favour with his next female “conquest”....... All proceeds from the sale of this image and any other in this profile will go to the Wildlife Appeal to assist the silent victims of the bushfires in Australia.
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The breeding male Variegated Fairy-wren is brightly coloured. The crown and sides of the head are blue, and the shoulder patch is a rich chestnut. The depth and variety of colours in the male varies among the four subspecies, distributed across the Australian mainland. Non-breeding males, females and young birds are brownish grey.
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Another Variegated Fairy-wren, I like the way this shot shows the rich chestnut shoulder patch.
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This endearing little / Superb Fairy Wren is / singing her heart out! More birds and wildlife here Read about my wildlife photography here
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Cute little pair of Wrens / ...snuggling. More birds and wildlife here Read about my wildlife photography here
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This juvnile Male Red-backed Fairy-wren (Malurus melanocephalus) was keeping in contact with the rest of the family. Soon he’ll be off by himself (well maybe with a mate)
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This is a mature female Red-backed fairy wren who I recon looks as good as the males. / Like other fairy-wrens, the Red-backed Fairy-wren is unrelated to the true wren (family Troglodytidae). Recently, DNA analysis has shown that the Maluridae family is related to the Meliphagidae (honeyeaters), and the Pardalotidae (pardalotes, scrubwrens, thornbills, gerygones and allies) in the large superfamily Meliphagoidea.[
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This is a mature Male in Breading Colors. Within the Maluridae, The Red-backed fairy wren is one of 12 species in its genus, Malurus. It is most closely related to the Australian White-winged Fairy-wren, with which it makes up a phylogenetic clade, with the White-shouldered Fairy-wren of New Guinea as the next closest relative. Termed the bicoloured wrens by ornithologist Richard Schodde, these three species are notable for their lack of head patterns and ear tufts, and one-coloured black or blue plumage with contrasting shoulder or wing colour; they replace each other geographically across northern Australia and New Guinea.[
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Acrylic painting by Christopher Pope
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A female Variegated Fairy-wren – Malurus lamberti, checking herself out in my car’s outside mirror. The fourth day straight that the pair have visited my cat whilst it is parked in my driveway at Coffin Bay, South Australia.
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A male Variegated Fairy-wren – Malurus lamberti, checking itself out in my car’s mirror. As this is the third afternoon straight, he and his mate have visited, I now have that many photos of them that I had to toss a coin as to which photo to put on here.
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Featured in The Woman Photographer 6th December 09 Female Superb Fairy Wren (Malurus cyaneus). When seen alongside the male Superb Fairy Wren the female is lost against his beautiful blue markings. That is a shame however, as in her own right she is really very beautiful and so very dainty. Captured in my garden, Central West Slopes & Plains, NSW. Australia. Best viewed large More info on habitat etc here Canon EOS 50D / Canon 100-400mm lens Thank you as always for taking time to look.
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