Vik's Gallery:   Splendid Fairy-wren (1/8)

PASSERIFORMES: Maluridae

Malurus splendens  

The "Turquoise Wren" race musgravi of the Northern Territory and South Australia.

We watched this beautiful little bird making the rounds of his territory within the Alice Springs Desert Park.

It chased off Zebra Finches, but in turn had to duck away from a male Variegated Fairy-wren with territorial claims.