Description
Breeding male: head blue, ear coverts paler. Upper back blue; lower back black. Wing coverts chestnut; rest of wings brown. Tail dull blue. Face, throat and breast black glossed with blue; rest of underparts white. Adult female: mostly dull brown tinged with reddish brown; underparts whitish.
Breeding from September to January. Nest a coarse dome of bark, leaves and grass usually concealed in dense vegetation near the ground. The clutch comprises two or three white eggs dotted with brown. Its territorial song is a reeling trill.
Author credit: R.E. Johnstone / Western Australian Museum
Habitat
Forest undergrowth, especially Melaleuca and other waterside thickets.
Food
Carnivore
Range
South-western Australia
Credits:
Map is from Atlas of Living Australia website at https://biocache.ala.org.au licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
Species Description is from Museums Field Guide, Atlas of Living Australia at website at https://lists.ala.org.au Licensed under Creative Commons Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
Classification
| Class: | Aves | | Order: | Passeriformes | | Family: | Maluridae | | Genus: | Malurus | | Species: | elegans | | Common Name: | Red-winged Fairy-wren |
Relatives in same Genus
Lovely Fairy-wren (M. amabilis)
Superb Fairy-wren (M. cyaneus)
Variegated Fairy-wren (M. lamberti)
White-winged Fairy-wren (M. leucopterus)
Red-backed Fairy-wren (M. melanocephalus)
Splendid Fairy-wren (M. splendens)
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