Cuteness Overload - Superb Fairy-wrens is a painting by Frances McMahon Watercolour Bird Artist which was uploaded on September 13th, 2023.
Cuteness Overload - Superb Fairy-wrens
The beloved and eternally popular Blue Wren of Australia needs no introduction.
These delicate and beautiful birds are a common sight in eastern... more
Title
Cuteness Overload - Superb Fairy-wrens
Artist
Frances McMahon Watercolour Bird Artist
Medium
Painting - Watermedia On 2000gsm Museum Board
Description
The beloved and eternally popular "Blue Wren" of Australia needs no introduction.
These delicate and beautiful birds are a common sight in eastern Australia where suitable dense cover and shrubs occur.
With their high tinkling twittering, constant tail bobbing and the unmistakable "cute" factor, it's easy to see why this species was voted 2021 Australian bird of the year.
Australia has 9 species of fairy-wren, 3 emu-wrens and 11 grasswrens forming the family Maluridae. However, they aren't related to the true wrens from the family Trogoldytidae.
As with all fairy-wrens, the sexes are strongly dimorphic; the male often seen surrounded by the plainer females, but a proportion of them are males which haven't attained breeding plumage. Males leave their territory during the day and perform courtship displays (often with a yellow flower in the beak) to other females, but it is the females that control the choice of mate.
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September 13th, 2023
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