16 Unique Birds That Can Stun You With Their Beauty (Pics & Video)

Fairy Wren: With its gleaming, velvety blue-and-black plumage, the male Superb Fairy-wren is easily distinguished. These 'coloured' males are often accompanied by a band of brown 'jenny wrens', often assumed to be a harem of females, but a proportion of them are males which have not yet attained their breeding plumage. The contents of these birds' untidy nests — a clutch of three or four eggs — are not necessarily the progeny of the 'coloured' male, as there is much infidelity among female fairy-wrens, with many eggs resulting from extra-pair liaisons. Superb Fairy-wrens are found south of the Tropic of Capricorn through eastern Australia and Tasmania to the south-eastern corner of South Australia. Seen in most habitat types where suitable dense cover and low shrubs occur. They are common in urban parks and gardens, and can be seen in small social groups. These groups normally consist of one male and several females and young birds.