Meet The Purple-Crowned Fairy-Wren, The Most Faithful Of All The Fairy-Wrens (7 Pics)

The purple crowned fairy-wren is not an easy bird to miss. With its unique violet-purple crown and perky blue tail grabbing all the attention. It’s quite a small, shy bird and while colouring of plumage will vary according to age, mostly they are brown above, white below, with a long, perky blue tail.

They feed on a variety of insects and also eat small quantities of seeds. If conditions are suitable they can breed throughout the year. Females typically lay three eggs in a bulky nest in the crown of a pandanus or in thick clumps of canegrass.