Animalia > Chordata > Aves > Passeriformes > Maluridae > Malurus > Malurus cyaneusMalurus cyaneus (Superb Fairywren)The superb fairy-wren (Malurus cyaneus), also known as the superb blue-wren or colloquially as the blue wren, is a passerine bird of the family Maluridae, common and familiar across southeastern Australia. The species is sedentary and territorial, also exhibiting a high degree of sexual dimorphism; the male in breeding plumage has a striking bright blue forehead, ear coverts, mantle, and tail, with a black mask and black or dark blue throat. Non-breeding males, females and juveniles are predominantly grey-brown in colour; this gave the early impression that males were polygamous, as all dull-coloured birds were taken for females. Six subspecies groups are recognized: three larger and darker forms from Tasmania, Flinders and King Island respectively, and three smaller and paler forms from m |
Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) Unique (100) Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) Unique & Vulnerable (100) ED Score: 10.3565 EDGE Score: 2.42979 |
Adult Weight [1] | 10.5 grams | | Diet [2] | Carnivore (Invertebrates), Frugivore, Granivore | Diet - Fruit [2] | 10 % | Diet - Invertibrates [2] | 80 % | Diet - Seeds [2] | 10 % | Forages - Understory [2] | 50 % | Forages - Ground [2] | 50 % | | Female Maturity [3] | 1 year | Male Maturity [3] | 1 year | | Clutch Size [5] | 3 | Incubation [4] | 14 days | Maximum Longevity [3] | 10 years 4 months |
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Countries |
Ecozone |
Biome |
Species |
Report |
Climate |
Land Use |
Australian Alps montane grasslands |
Australia |
Australasia |
Montane Grasslands and Shrublands |
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Brigalow tropical savanna |
Australia |
Australasia |
Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands |
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Eastern Australia mulga shrublands |
Australia |
Australasia |
Temperate Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands |
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Eastern Australian temperate forests |
Australia |
Australasia |
Temperate Broadleaf and Mixed Forests |
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Eyre and York mallee |
Australia |
Australasia |
Mediterranean Forests, Woodlands, and Scrub |
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Mount Lofty woodlands |
Australia |
Australasia |
Mediterranean Forests, Woodlands, and Scrub |
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Murray-Darling woodlands and mallee |
Australia |
Australasia |
Mediterranean Forests, Woodlands, and Scrub |
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Naracoorte woodlands |
Australia |
Australasia |
Mediterranean Forests, Woodlands, and Scrub |
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Queensland tropical rain forests |
Australia |
Australasia |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Southeast Australia temperate forests |
Australia |
Australasia |
Temperate Broadleaf and Mixed Forests |
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Southeast Australia temperate savanna |
Australia |
Australasia |
Temperate Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands |
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Tasmanian Central Highland forests |
Australia |
Australasia |
Temperate Broadleaf and Mixed Forests |
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Tasmanian temperate forests |
Australia |
Australasia |
Temperate Broadleaf and Mixed Forests |
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Tasmanian temperate rain forests |
Australia |
Australasia |
Temperate Broadleaf and Mixed Forests |
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Tirari-Sturt stony desert |
Australia |
Australasia |
Deserts and Xeric Shrublands |
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Name |
IUCN Category |
Area acres |
Location |
Species |
Website |
Climate |
Land Use |
Bald Rock National Park |
II |
21998 |
New South Wales, Australia |
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Coorong National Park |
II |
121235 |
South Australia, Australia |
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Dunggir National Park |
II |
6402 |
New South Wales, Australia |
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Flinders Chase National Park |
II |
81245 |
South Australia, Australia |
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Girraween National Park |
II |
28978 |
Queensland, Australia |
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Hattah-Kulkyne NP and Murray-Kulkyne Park National Park |
II |
122831 |
Victoria, Australia |
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Kosciuszko National Park |
II |
1705480 |
New South Wales, Australia |
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Lamington National Park |
II |
50970 |
Queensland, Australia |
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Lavinia Nature Reserve State Reserve |
II |
17390 |
Tasmania, Australia |
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Maria National Park |
II |
5735 |
New South Wales, Australia |
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Riverland Biosphere Reserve |
Ia |
1490891 |
South Australia, Australia |
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Sundown National Park |
II |
30557 |
Queensland, Australia |
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Wilson's Promontory National Park |
II |
119279 |
Victoria, Australia |
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Attributes / relations provided by ♦ 1Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109 ♦ 2Hamish Wilman, Jonathan Belmaker, Jennifer Simpson, Carolina de la Rosa, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, and Walter Jetz. 2014. EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027 ♦ 3de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774 ♦ 4del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona. ♦ 5Jetz W, Sekercioglu CH, Böhning-Gaese K (2008) The Worldwide Variation in Avian Clutch Size across Species and Space PLoS Biol 6(12): e303. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0060303 ♦ 6Species Interactions of Australia Database, Atlas of Living Australia, Version ala-csv-2012-11-19 Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database |
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0
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