Purple-crowned Fairywren
RareGBIF 63.4·Dongniao Rarity Index9.65
英文名：Purple-crowned Fairywren（学名：Malurus coronatus），是雀形目细尾鹩莺科的鸟类。14–15.5 厘米。雄鸟：头顶深紫丁香色，中央黑色；宽阔的黑色眼罩延伸至后颈周围；尾蓝色；下体乳白色，染皮黄色。雄鸟，蚀羽：头灰色；眼斑黑色。雌鸟：头顶蓝灰色；具细白眉纹和眼圈；眼斑栗色；尾蓝色。幼鸟：似雌鸟；眼周无白色。成对、家族群活动：常在树高处活动。
Purple-crowned Fairywren
14-15.5 cm. Male: crown deep lilac with black centre; broad black mask extends around nape; tail blue; underparts cream, washed buff. Male, eclipse: head grey; eye-patch blackish. Female: crown blue-grey; fine white eyebrow and eye-ring; chestnut eye-patch; blue tail. Immature: like female; no white around eye. Pairs, family parties: often high in trees.
- Other name
- Lilac-crowned Wren.
- Voice
- loud, low-pitched reeling, with elements of scrubwren; high-pitched 'cheepa-cheepa-cheepa'; contact-call short 'drrt' or 'jk' note like Fairy Martin; deep scolds.
- Habitat
- pandanus/paperbark thickets, with tall cane-grass and other dense low cover, mostly fringing rivers, creeks, lakes; rarely mangroves.
- Breeding
- Aug.-Jan.; April-May.
- Nest
- domed, bulky; of strips of paperbark, cane-grass; in pandanus, near water.
- Eggs
- 3; pink-white, with spots, splashes of brownish pink.
- Range & Status
- nominate race: n. and e. Kimberley (WA), from Drysdale R. e. to Victoria R. (NT); s. to upper Fitzroy, Hann and Margaret Rs. (WA); Ord R. on upper L. Argyle (WA). Race macgillivrayi: e. NT, from lower Roper, Towns, Limmen Bight, McArthur Rs. e. to Gregory-lower Leichhardt Rs. (nw. Q); s. to Mallapunyah (NT); Lawn Hill NP-Riversleigh-Kamilaroi (Q). Very local; habitat decimated by burning and stock. Sedentary.
- Distribution key to races
- 1. Malurus coronatus coronatus 2. Malurus coronatus macgillivrayi
