 |
 |
|
|
|
|
The dainty superb fairy-wrens are the common fairy-wrens of eastern and southeastern Australia, living in social groups in towns and city parks as well as in wild areas. It is one of the best-studied of Australian birds and it's rather bizarre social and mating system -- with up to 70% of the eggs in a given nest NOT fathered by the attending male -- well-documented. Like most fairy-wrens, males are brilliantly colored, while females are a dull brownish. These were photographed in Wollongong, on the coast of New South Wales. A family group with at least two adult males and several females was feeding 4 offspring (the brown birds with short tails in some of these photos). Other pages on this website show the varigated fairy-wren, the very similar purple-backed fairy-wren, the shy but stunning white-winged fairy-wren, red-backed fairy-wren, red-winged fairy-wren, and the even more stunning splendid fairy-wren.
|
|
|
|
