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White-winged fairywren

 * This is the archived discussion of the TFAR nomination for the article below. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/requests). Please do not modify this page. 

The result was: scheduled for Today's featured article/December 1, 2016 by — Chris Woodrich (talk) 02:08, 12 November 2016 (UTC)



The white-winged fairywren (Malurus leucopterus) is a species of passerine bird in the fairywren family Maluridae. It lives in the drier parts of central Australia; from central Queensland and South Australia across to Western Australia. Like other fairywrens, this species displays marked sexual dimorphism and one or more males of a social group grow brightly coloured blue plumage during the breeding season. The female is sandy-brown with light-blue tail feathers; it is smaller than the male. Younger sexually mature males are almost indistinguishable from females and are often the breeding males. Apart from the mainland subspecies, another one is found on Dirk Hartog Island, and another on Barrow Island off the coast of Western Australia, both having black rather than blue male plumage. The white-winged fairywren mainly eats insects, and lives in heathland and arid scrublandI. It is a cooperative breeding species, and small groups of birds maintain and defend territories year-round. Groups consist of a socially monogamous pair with several helper birds who assist in raising the young. As part of a courtship display, the male wren plucks petals from flowers and displays them to female birds.
 * Most recent similar article(s): September 1, 2016 (passenger pigeon)
 * Main editors: Casliber
 * Promoted: June 4, 2008
 * Reasons for nomination: nice image - no bird on mainpage for a bit
 * Support as nominator. Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 01:01, 8 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Support, - you are right! I took the liberty to shrink the blurb, please check if I left something out that's important. The courtship detail may not be of prime importance, but I find it charming ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:03, 8 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Looks alright but left breeding male plumage out so readded. Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 02:30, 9 November 2016 (UTC)