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Variegated Fairywren
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Variegated Fairywren
Malurus lamberti
The variegated fairywren (Malurus lamberti) is a fairywren that lives in diverse habitats across most of Australia. Five subspecies are recognised. In a species that exhibits sexual dimorphism, the brightly coloured breeding male has chestnut shoulders and azure crown and ear coverts, while non-breeding males, females and juveniles have predominantly grey-brown plumage, although females of two subspecies have mainly blue-grey plumage.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 12097.