Photographed at Billy's Light Point, Port Lincoln, South Australia February 2016 |
759 BLUE-BREASTED FAIRY-WREN Malurua pulcherrimus
Australia (603)
Also known as Blue-breasted Superb Warbler or Blue-breasted Superb Fairy-wren. 13.5 - 15 cm. Found undergrowth in drier forrest, woodlands; sandplain-scrubs, heaths; tea-tree and mallee associations; low dense dune-vegetation, acacia-thickets, saltbush. In SA (Eyre Pen.) heath country, swampy localities. Range: broken distribution in sw WA and Eyre Pen. (SA).
Female. |