Key Identification Features
- The brightly coloured crown, ear tufts and upper back are prominent features used during breeding displays.
- This species, the blue-breasted fairwren (Malurus pulcherrimus Gould, 1844), has distinct vocalizations.
- Among Australasian wrens, males of this species have the least distinctive song: a soft whirring, buzzing trill, typically sung from a sheltered spot deep inside the foliage of shrubby vegetation.
- A male in non-breeding eclipse plumage resembles the female, though it can be distinguished by its darker bill.
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