Agree with John,
There are excellent photographs of Emperor Fairy-wren in Brian Coates. The
Birds of Papua New Guinea Vol II.
Nikolas' identification spot on I reckon: most lilely "M. photoshopiensis"
Graeme Stevens
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> Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2013 11:11:23 +0800
> Subject: Re: [Birding-Aus] identified bird - information, I hope
>
>
> 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
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> > 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-----
> > From:
> > 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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