ID: 33959
Photographer: © Ian Montgomery
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Location: Mount Isa District NW Queensland Australia
Date & Time: 26/5/06 9:53:11 AM

Original size (pixels): width 1908, height 1392

Aperture: f8.0
Shutter Speed: 1/500 sec
Focal Length: 400.0 mm

Polytypic Purple-backed Fairywren is split from monotypic, nonsister Variegated Fairywren based on studies of narrow hybrid zone with limited gene flow (McLean et al. 2012, 2017). Split recognised (at October 2018) by IOC and eBird but not (yet) by BirdLife.