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fairywren (FAI-ree-ren) - n., any of sixteen small Australian warblers (tribe Malurini) having brilliant male plumage and drab brown female colors.
Wren sized and shaped, but this is convergent evolution -- they (and their cousins the emuwrens and grasswrens) are actually most closely related to honeyeaters. This is the white-winged fairywren:
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Not quite what I think of as fairy-like but I won't cast shade on whoever does.
---L.
Wren sized and shaped, but this is convergent evolution -- they (and their cousins the emuwrens and grasswrens) are actually most closely related to honeyeaters. This is the white-winged fairywren:
Thanks, WikiMedia!
Not quite what I think of as fairy-like but I won't cast shade on whoever does.
---L.
