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Variegated Fairywren

Malurus lamberti · Family Maluridae

Malurus lamberti

Family Maluridae

Order
Passeriformes
Family
Maluridae
GBIF occurrence records
210,556
Countries and territories with records
2
Variegated Fairywren
James Niland from Brisbane, Australia · Malurus lamberti -Brisbane, Queensland, Australia -female-8.jpg · CC BY 2.0 · James Niland from Brisbane, Australia · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Recordings may be trimmed and re-encoded; photos are cropped and resized.

About this species

This species has 210,556 occurrence records from 2 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Australia accounts for 99.9% of the records; no other country or territory reaches 1%. In Australia, this species accounts for 0.19% of all bird records in GBIF.

The scientific name Malurus lamberti combines the genus name Malurus with the species epithet lamberti. The Warbla app catalog lists 12 species of the genus Malurus; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Malurus cyaneus, Malurus melanocephalus and Malurus splendens.

The catalog has GBIF record counts for 31 species of the family Maluridae. This species ranks 2nd among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Malurus cyaneus. Its record count is 2.8 times the family average (76,303). The family Maluridae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.

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