Purple-crowned fairy-wrens are different from other fairy-wrens we learned after a group of scientists spent over a decade observing them.

Four months since extreme floods swept through their habitat, a group of purple-crowned fairy-wrens have been found alive and well. When ex-Tropical Cyclone Ellie inundated the Kimberley with record ...

These tiny little birds are basically little living disco balls with feathers. During mating season, the male superb ...

In a warming climate, flora and fauna come under stress, particularly those that are already threatened like the striking purple-crowned fairy-wren.

A puzzling example of altruism in nature has been debunked with researchers showing that purple-crowned fairy wrens are in reality cunningly planning for their own future when they assist in ...

The models had three types: conspicuously-colored male purple-backed fairy wren, dull-colored female purple-backed fairy wren, and conspicuously-colored female lovely fairy wren.

Fires in riparian zones within the tropical savannas of northern Australia affect the breeding success and survival of endangered, purple-crowned fairy-wrens.

Wren chats to 15-year-old Maya who’s just won the junior division of the Australian Geographic’s Nature Photographer of the Year competition.

The study looked at the breeding season of superb fairy-wrens living in the Australian National Botanic Gardens in Canberra.

Life Fairywren birds can nest out of breeding season to boost numbers Purple-crowned fairywrens are more flexible in their breeding behaviour than we thought, which has helped the bird population ...

Fairy-wrens were known to discriminate against cuckoo nestlings on the basis of their foreign begging calls 1, says Sonia Kleindorfer, an animal behaviourist at Flinders University in Adelaide ...

We study a population of 200-300 purple-crowned fairy-wrens (Malurus coronatus coronatus) along 15km of waterways. Each bird in this population has been tagged with a unique small coloured leg band.