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In the dense low shrubs growing in the North and in the centre of the Australian continent, you can see a small bright bird colorful painted maluro (lat. Malurus lamberti). A small group of these brown-blue birds with upturned tails are collected in a green Bush and, sitting close to each other, care for the feathers of its partners.



Each family consists of established pairs, Chicks and assistants, who are engaged in the protection and upbringing of the younger generation. The presence of permanent partner does not interfere with how the male and female to seek adventure on the side. Bright-colored males colored painted maluro care for their partners gray very elegant, presenting each of them with petals of yellow flowers.



Colorful painted maluri very talkative: reporting the news or to warn of the danger, they chirp at a speed of 10-20 notes per second. Their songs can be heard during a hunt, which painted maluri leave at dawn.

They catch beetles, ants, flies and grasshoppers right in the Bush, moving between the bushes. To maintain balance, they help the little rounded wings and tail sticking upright. During the heat of the day colorful painted Malory hiding in abandoned burrows.



From early spring to late summer colorful painted Malory mate and hatch Chicks in a cozy ball-shaped nests that they weave from grass and cobwebs and hung on the branches. Hatched Chicks for the first 10 days of care all the family, feeding them and cleaning the nest of fecal material and food residue.

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