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Volume 25, Number 18
20 September 2006

pp 4163-4411

Splendid Wren (male) � Splendid Wrens (Malurus splendens) have an interesting nesting arrangement. It is a group activity consisting of a female, several non-breeding males and the dominant male, who assumes the brilliant blue, lilac and black plumage at the start of the breeding season. Photographed in the Yelverton Brook Wildlife Reserve in Western Australia by Graeme Guy, with a Canon EOS 1D Mark II, 500mm lens, 1.4 x extender, f11, 1/125, ISO 200. Graeme runs a Signal Transduction Laboratory at the Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology in the newly developed Biopolis Complex funded by the government agency, A-Star.

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