A couple of female Variegated Fairy Wrens chirping and flitting around next to a bush path at Manly Dam, NSW, Australia. [25], The variegated fairywren appeared on a 45c postage stamp in the Australia Post Nature of Australia – Desert issue released in June 2002. Variegated Fairy-wren (female) Malurus lamberti rogersi. [33] Petals are displayed and presented to a female in the male fairywren's own or another territory. Change ). was lucky enough to have my camera handy when a family of Wrens passed by, hopefully they will come back again and I will be better prepared. Of the species that overlap in range with the Superb Fairy-wren, the female White-winged Fairy-wren Malurus leucopterus and Red-backed Fairy-wren M. melanocephalus lacks the chestnut colour around the eye, while the female Variegated Fairy-wren M. lamberti has a dull grey-blue wash. Higgins, P.J., Peter, J.M. Description: The breeding male Variegated Fairy-wren is brightly coloured. I was so super excited to see this tiny blue one hopping around just at the riverside grass area near my place this morning. Southwestern birds gave rise to what is now the red-winged fairywren, while those in the northwest of the continent became the variegated fairywren and yet another isolated in the northeast became the lovely fairywren. • Male and female variegated fairy-wrens … Female Variegated Fairy Wren Or a female blue wren, but the darker tail suggests variegated. As they have a wide range, Variegated Fairy-wrens have been recorded breeding in almost every month of the year. It is found throughout Australia, being absent only from Cape York Peninsula, Tasmania and the extreme south-west corner of Western Australia. • Female splendid fairy-wrens competed with female intruders. So far I’ve found five – the two well-known ‘blue wrens’ and the three I will focus on in this post: Variegated, Red-winged and White-winged. Contrary to the traditional view that territory defence is a male behaviour, there is now evidence that female birds actively engage in territory defence, either alone or with their mate. (Mark). He was having a bath and shakeout! The small groups actually consist of an adult female with younger or non-breeding birds. © Jennie Stock – Nature in Focus, 2018. It is usually placed in a low bush and is constructed by the female. maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Ippos/35/22/21. The breeding male Variegated Fairy-wren is brightly coloured. [34], The variegated fairywren is a cooperative breeding species, with pairs or small groups of birds maintaining and defending small territories year-round. Come and explore what our researchers, curators and education programs have to offer! This is a partner. Of the species that overlap in range with the Superb Fairy-wren, the female White-winged Fairy-wren Malurus leucopterus and Red-backed Fairy-wren M. melanocephalus lacks the chestnut colour around the eye, while the female Variegated Fairy-wren M. lamberti has a dull grey-blue wash. Explore David S Taylor's photos on Flickr. All the others have moulted into eclipse plumage. Non-breeding males, females and juveniles are predominantly grey-brown in colour; all males have a black bill and lores (eye-ring and bare skin between eyes and bill), while females have a red-brown bill and bright rufous lores. Unlike her male counterpart, which put on a brightly coloured outfit to attract pretty bird like her during the courting period. It's not who I am underneath...it's what I do that defines me. Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. Taken on holiday in Australia a few years ago. (a) A male splendid fairy-wren song, (b) a female splendid fairy-wren song, (c) a male variegated fairy-wren song and (d) a female variegated fairy-wren song. [35], Major nest predators include Australian magpies, butcherbirds, laughing kookaburra, currawongs, crows and ravens, and shrike-thrushes, as well as introduced mammals such as the red fox, feral cats and black rat. [13], A 2017 molecular analysis by Alison J. McLean and colleagues of the former subspecies of the variegated fairywren largely supported Schodde's hypothesis. He's looking very smart. [25], Breeding occurs from spring through to late summer; the nest is generally situated in thick vegetation and less than 1 m (3.3 ft) above the ground. [21] The blue coloured plumage, particularly the ear-coverts, of the breeding males is highly iridescent due to the flattened and twisted surface of the barbules. The Eyrean Grasswren, Amytornis goyderi, was until the late 1970s known only from specimens collected in 1874 at Macumba River, north-west of Lake Eyre, South Australia. Male Superb Fairy-wrens have been labelled as 'the least faithful birds in the world'. Similar species: Several other species of fairy-wren are found in Australia. See more ideas about Variegated, Wren, Birds. 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