Campbell's Fairywren - BirdForum Opus

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Chenorhamphus campbelli

Identification

Male

• Black head and face
• Light blue stripes on brow and over ears
• Turquoise ear tufts
• Black crown
• Pale turquoise supercilium
• Powdery sky-blue ventral surface
• Tawny-brown mantle
• Deep grey-blue lower back
• Tawny-brown upper tail coverts
• Blue-greyish-brown tail
• Black-brown iris
• Black bill
• Grey feet
  

Female: similar to male

• White lower breast and belly
• Pale tawny-rufous crissum

Distribution

Australasia: found in south-eastern New Guinea.

Taxonomy

This is a monotypic species.
Formerly considered conspecific with Broad-billed Fairywren.
Formerly placed in genus Malurus.

Habitat

Swampy hill forest.

References

1. Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, D. Roberson, T. A. Fredericks, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2014. The eBird/Clements checklist of birds of the world: Version 6.9., with updates to August 2014. Downloaded from http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
2. Gill, F and D Donsker (Eds). 2014. IOC World Bird Names (version 4.3). Available at http://www.worldbirdnames.org/.
3. Avibase
4. publish.csiro

• List of references

Recommended Citation

• BirdForum Opus contributors. (2023) Campbell's Fairywren. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 1 December 2023 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Campbell%27s_Fairywren

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