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White-winged fairywren

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This is the archived discussion of the TFAR nomination for the article below. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/requests). Please do not modify this page.

The result was: scheduled for Wikipedia:Today's featured article/December 1, 2016 by  — Chris Woodrich (talk) 02:08, 12 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Malurus leucopterus ssp. leuconotus Coolmunda Dam, near Inglewood, Queensland

The white-winged fairywren (Malurus leucopterus) is a species of passerine bird in the fairywren family Maluridae. It lives in the drier parts of central Australia; from central Queensland and South Australia across to Western Australia. Like other fairywrens, this species displays marked sexual dimorphism and one or more males of a social group grow brightly coloured blue plumage during the breeding season. The female is sandy-brown with light-blue tail feathers; it is smaller than the male. Younger sexually mature males are almost indistinguishable from females and are often the breeding males. Apart from the mainland subspecies, another one is found on Dirk Hartog Island, and another on Barrow Island off the coast of Western Australia, both having black rather than blue male plumage. The white-winged fairywren mainly eats insects, and lives in heathland and arid scrublandI. It is a cooperative breeding species, and small groups of birds maintain and defend territories year-round. Groups consist of a socially monogamous pair with several helper birds who assist in raising the young. As part of a courtship display, the male wren plucks petals from flowers and displays them to female birds. (Full article...)

Looks alright but left breeding male plumage out so readded. Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 02:30, 9 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]