Hi Phil, Not that I would be anywhere near an expert on Emperor Fairy-wrens,
but there seems to be numerous problems with that as an ID, crown is noticeably
darker than throat in this bird, opposite shown in the few Emperor FW photos on
the net (crown paler), black mask nowhere near as extensive (as you point out),
overall blue colour of this bird is much paler, no black patch on the lower
back........ Don't think it's an Emperor Cheers,John
> From:
> To:
> Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2013 13:46:00 +1100
> Subject: [Birding-Aus] identified bird - information, I hope
>
> 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-----
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> On Behalf Of Jeremy O'Wheel
> Sent: Wednesday, 20 February 2013 1:05 PM
> To: Tom Tarrant
> Cc: Anthony Overs; Baus;
> Subject: Re: [Birding-Aus] 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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