{"id":150,"date":"2018-03-23T12:53:45","date_gmt":"2018-03-23T12:53:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/clements\/?p=150"},"modified":"2018-03-24T11:17:34","modified_gmt":"2018-03-24T11:17:34","slug":"bird-of-the-week-splendid-fairy-wren","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/clements\/2018\/03\/23\/bird-of-the-week-splendid-fairy-wren\/","title":{"rendered":"Bird of the week &#8211; Splendid fairy-wren"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">This bird is superbly named. Any doubts about how it is named might be dispelled by a sighting of the brilliantly blue hues glowing from the males of the species. Australians voting for the top bird also thought it was the most superb \u2013 when Birdlife Australia conducted a poll in 2013 to determine the most popular bird in the country, this little bird was #1.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-153 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/create.twu.ca\/clements\/files\/2018\/03\/fairy_wren5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"777\" height=\"593\" srcset=\"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/clements\/files\/2018\/03\/fairy_wren5.jpg 777w, https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/clements\/files\/2018\/03\/fairy_wren5-300x229.jpg 300w, https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/clements\/files\/2018\/03\/fairy_wren5-768x586.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">Regarding the superb result for the fairy-wren Birdlife Australia asked: <\/span><span style=\"background: white;line-height: 107%;font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;font-size: 10pt\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">\u201cIs it the stunning males in breeding plumage? Or the fact that they live in many people\u2019s gardens, particularly where there is a lot of dense cover for them to retreat to and breed in?<\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">However, in 2017, the fairy-wren dropped to #5 with the Australian magpie taking top honours \u2013 see my synopsis of the\u00a02017 winner\u00a0at: <\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"RHjbgwb8RT\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/clements\/2018\/02\/15\/bird-of-the-week-australian-magpie\/\">Bird of the week &#8211; Australian magpie<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Bird of the week &#8211; Australian magpie&#8221; &#8212;                             David Clements\" src=\"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/clements\/2018\/02\/15\/bird-of-the-week-australian-magpie\/embed\/#?secret=P41qMJRkMV#?secret=RHjbgwb8RT\" data-secret=\"RHjbgwb8RT\" width=\"525\" height=\"296\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-158 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/create.twu.ca\/clements\/files\/2018\/03\/fairy_wren3-1024x622.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"319\" srcset=\"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/clements\/files\/2018\/03\/fairy_wren3-1024x622.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/clements\/files\/2018\/03\/fairy_wren3-300x182.jpg 300w, https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/clements\/files\/2018\/03\/fairy_wren3-768x466.jpg 768w, https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/clements\/files\/2018\/03\/fairy_wren3.jpg 1303w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">Back to the wren, these dainty birds produce a mesmerizing song characteristic\u00a0of wrens. They live very gregariously. I was wondering why I saw more of the brown females around than the blue males, but it turns out that in the small groups they hang out in, many of the brown ones are immature males, yet to take on their true colours.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-154 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/create.twu.ca\/clements\/files\/2018\/03\/fairy_wren2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"945\" height=\"687\" srcset=\"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/clements\/files\/2018\/03\/fairy_wren2.jpg 945w, https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/clements\/files\/2018\/03\/fairy_wren2-300x218.jpg 300w, https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/clements\/files\/2018\/03\/fairy_wren2-768x558.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">In Australia, as well as seeing these birds everywhere, we have seen superb fairy-wren art, including in the doorway of our residence in Wagga Wagga, as seen below, and every day when we walk out our door!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-155 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/create.twu.ca\/clements\/files\/2018\/03\/fairy_wren_window2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/clements\/files\/2018\/03\/fairy_wren_window2.jpg 960w, https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/clements\/files\/2018\/03\/fairy_wren_window2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/clements\/files\/2018\/03\/fairy_wren_window2-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This bird is superbly named. Any doubts about how it is named might be dispelled by a sighting of the brilliantly blue hues glowing from the males of the species. Australians voting for the top bird also thought it was the most superb \u2013 when Birdlife Australia conducted a poll in 2013 to determine the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/clements\/2018\/03\/23\/bird-of-the-week-splendid-fairy-wren\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Bird of the week &#8211; Splendid fairy-wren&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":212,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/clements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/clements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/clements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/clements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/212"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/clements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/clements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":162,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/clements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150\/revisions\/162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/clements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/clements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/clements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}