Variegated Fairywren

Teewah Pump Stn Rd, SE Qld IMG_5409 20190712 - adult male. CLICK for adult female.

Notes: Long blue tail that is held cocked. Breeding male: bright pale-blue helmet, black breast,
royal-blue back, chestnut shoulders. Cf Purple-backed Fairywren w. mid-violet blue mantle.
Non-breeding male: like female but black bill & lores. Female: brownish, w. pale front, long blue
tail, dark rufous lores & eye-ring. Coastal heathland, dry sclerophyll forest & woodland w.
shrubby understory.

Range from eBird^©(last 10 years)

Mimosa Rocks, SE NSW IMG_5890 20190310 - female

Orient Point, NE NSW IMG_7051 20171022 - adult male

Grafton, C NSW IMG_1715 20190623 - male in eclipse: like female but black bill & lores. CLICK for another: Teewah Pump
Station Road, SE Qld 20190712

Mimosa Rocks, SE NSW IMG_5933 20190310 - male, partial eclipse plumage. CLICK for another pic. Note the blue,
not purple, mantle cf Purple-backed Farywren.

Batemans Bay, SE NSW IMG_9168 20200218 - male, partial eclipse plumage

Teewah Pump Station Road, SE Qld IMG_5422 20190712 - juvenile: like female but no blue in tail.

location MVI_6666 20180909