Subject: Odd Fairy-wren
> Following my little report on our trip to the Macquarie Marshes, would
> anyone on the list have comment on an odd Fairy-wren we encountered
> there? This bird was in the Phragmites at the Monkeygar Creek
> crossing. The head-markings and coloration there where those of a
> typical male Superb, but the entire wings, including all of the
> primaries were jet-black, as black as the nape of its neck. Very good
> views were had. This could hardly be a moult-stage (?) Was it just an
> aberration?
> John Clifton-Everest
Hi John,
Last year there was a male Superb Fairy-wren very similar to the one you
described at the Katoa Close end of the Warriewood Wetland boardwalk on
Sydney's Northern Beaches. It didn't hang around for long but I remember
seeing it on 2 or 3 visits. It was in full plumage so I assumed it was some
sort of melanistic aberration.
Bruce.
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