SUPERB FAIRY-WREN

40    SUPERB FAIRY-WREN         Malurus cyaneus

Australia   (40)

Also known as Blue wren, Jenny wren, Superb Blue-wren.  Well loved Australian wren. Found in low cover, golf courses, along scrub beside roadways, forest undergrowth, riverside thickets, woodlands, coastal salt marshes. South-east Queensland, eastern NSW, most of Victoria, se SA, Tasmania.

Subspecies cyaneus, photographed Bruny Island, Tasmania February 2017

Female, subspecies cyaneus