WHITE-WINGED FAIRY-WREN

413        WHITE-WINGED FAIRY-WREN            Malurus leucopterus

Australia            (287)

Also known as Black-and-white Fairy-wren, Blue-and-white Fairy-wren, White-backed Fairy-wren. The male has either blue or black body. 11.5-13 cm. Found in low heath, scrub, saltbush, tall grasses, low dense shrubs, tangled clumps on open, often treeless arid wastes, saltbush, holy-poly, spinifex, margins of salt lakes. Range across central Australia but not around edges from Broome, across northland down east, around to Adelaide. 

Photographed at Deniliquin, NSW February 2015