Superb Fairywren

• It is socially monogamous and sexually promiscuous to an extreme degree: as many as three quarters of the chicks in a nest may be fathered by males from outside the group, one of the highest proportions documented in any bird.
• The males court carrying a yellow or pink petal in the bill, contrasting with their blue plumage, and present it to females from other groups.
• The female sings to the eggs before they hatch and teaches them a password note: the chicks that reproduce it when begging get fed, and parasitic chicks that fail to learn it end up rejected.

Skeleton type

Vertebrate - internal bony skeleton (bird)

Habitat and environment

Dense scrub, understorey, hedgerows and gardens of south-eastern Australia and Tasmania

Birth weight

Altricial: born blind, naked or with sparse down and entirely dependent

Size at birth

Altricial: born blind, naked or with sparse down and entirely dependent

Sexual maturity

12 months

Gestation / incubation

14 days of incubation

Litter / clutch size

3 eggs

Sources consulted: https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malurus_cyaneus

Best time: All year in south-eastern Australia, by day; the male wears his blue breeding plumage mainly between September and January.

The pins mark the parks where its presence is documented.