ID: 33962
Photographer: © Ian Montgomery
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Location: Mount Isa District NW Queensland Australia
Date & Time: 26/5/06 9:54:29 AM

Original size (pixels): width 1524, height 1817

Aperture: f9.0
Shutter Speed: 1/640 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.