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Inland Purple-backed Fairy-wren
Male, front
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| Inland Purple-backed Fairy-wren Male, front | | Inland Purple-backed Fairy-wren Pair | | ||
-assimilis.JPG "Inland Purple-backed Fairy-wren (Malurus (Leggeornis) assimilis ssp assimilis)") | Class: | Animals (Animalia) - Chordates (Chordata) - Birds (Aves) | |||
| Order: | Perching Birds (Passeriformes) | ||||
| Family: | Australian Fairy-wren (Maluridae) iNaturalist Observation | ||||
| Species: | Inland Purple-backed Fairy-wren (Malurus (Leggeornis) assimilis ssp assimilis) | ||||
| This Photo: | Female | ||||
| Synonym: | Malurus lamberti | ||||
| Other name: | Variegated Fairy-wren | ||||
Thank you Antoni Camozzato for confirming the id of this species for us General Species Information: Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA), the Flinders Ranges and elsewhere The male is very similar to the Superb but with a chestnut "scarf". Unlike the splendid, the patch around the female's eye is blood-red. So far we haven't seen the Superb & Variegated in the same area. Last year, 2018, these were split out from the Variegated Fairy-wrens (Malurus lamberti) | |||||
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