ID: 41572
Photographer: © Ian Montgomery
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Location: McNamara's Road NW Queensland Australia
Date & Time: 15/9/06 2:56:53 PM

Original size (pixels): width 3003, height 2253

Aperture: f7.1
Shutter Speed: 1/400 sec
Focal Length: 190.0 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.