It looks genuine to me, just a wrong choice of species for the text. I
thought I remembered that bird and consulted my books. It looks a lot like
the Emperor Fairy-wren Malurus cyanocephalus from PNG. At least is seems
entirely consistent with the R Weatherly painting (page 59) in Richard
Schodde's The Fairy-Wrens book. The only difference is in the photo, the
black face mask is slightly smaller than in that painting, otherwise an
exact match. Why they would choose such an obscure species, when they could
easily choose what they say it is a mystery. Note they spell Sydney wrong.
So quite some interpretive license calling it our bird.
Philip
-----Original Message-----
From:
On Behalf Of Jeremy O'Wheel
Sent: Wednesday, 20 February 2013 1:05 PM
To: Tom Tarrant
Cc: Anthony Overs; Baus;
Subject: Unidentified bird - more misinformation
A google image search did manage to find a less bright version of the photo.
I don't know if this is the original, or a real bird.
http://media-cache-ec6.pinterest.com/192/92/b1/e6/92b1e6e82329068203d5fd09da
5e1313.jpg
Jeremy
On 20 February 2013 12:52, Tom Tarrant <> wrote:
> Looks like a 'photoshopped' Common Yellowthroat from the US.
>
> Tom
>
>
> On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 11:48 AM, Anthony Overs
> <
> >wrote:
>
> > Hi everyone
> >
> > Another bird picture doing the rounds on blogs and Facebook. This
> > one is labelled as a Blue Fairy Wren of Australia. Any ideas as to
> > what species
> it
> > actually is??
> >
> > http://jackmarinokids.blogspot.com.au/2012/09/blue-fairy-wren.html
> >
> > Thanks
> > Anthony
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