By Chen Ly.
There are purple-crowned fairywrens in the Northern Territory.
The Australian Wildlife Conservancy is headed by Wayne Lawler.
Researchers spotted purple-crowned fairywrens for the second year in a row reproducing outside their usual breeding season. The findings show that the reproductive behavior of the birds is more flexible than we had thought.
The purple-crowned fairywrens have pale bellies and long blue tails. The purple crown and black cheek patches of the males are breeding. Females have dark hair and brown cheek patches.
During the Australian wet season, the birds breed. In recent years, dry season breeding has become more widespread among the western subspecies of the bird.
The birds at Mornington are surveyed in 2020.
