Fairy-wrens (Maluridae)
Mallee Emu-wren (Stipiturus mallee) - HBW 12, p. 527
French: Queue-de-gaze du mallee
German: Malleeborstenschwanz
Spanish: Maluro del Mallee
Taxonomy: Stipiturus mallee A. J. Campbell, 1908, Mallee district = Hopetoun district, west Victoria, Australia.
Forms a superspecies with S. malachurus and S. ruficeps; has been treated as conspecific with former. Often considered conspecific with S. ruficeps, but protein evidence supports maintenance of the two as distinct species. Monotypic.
Distribution: Mallee region of SE South Australia (S of R Murray) and NW Victoria.
- Endangered Enlarge map
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A male moving in vegetation. Locality Hattah-Kulkyne National Park, Victoria, Australia (Monotypic species)
Josep del Hoyo 29 October 2009 1 year ago 22 sec 4 -
A male moving and looking around among vegetation. Locality Hattah-Kulkyne National Park, Victoria, Australia (Monotypic species)
Josep del Hoyo 29 October 2009 1 year ago 40 sec 3.3 -
Video shows the nature of the species - flittering around in the spinifex grass clumps - but also contains some good close-ups. Locality Hattah-Kulkyne National Park, Victoria, Australia (Monotypic species)
Peter Waanders 24 October 2008 2 years ago 44 sec 2.8
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A male perched on a dead branch.
Locality Hattah-Kulkyne National Park, Victoria, Australia (Monotypic species)
Josep del Hoyo 29 October 2009 1 year ago 3 -
A male perched.
Locality Hattah-Kulkyne National Park, Victoria, Australia (Monotypic species)
Josep del Hoyo 29 October 2009 1 year ago 2.8 -
Male on top of a clump of spinifex grass (video still)
Locality Hattah-Kulkyne National Park, Victoria, Australia (Monotypic species)
Peter Waanders 24 October 2008 2 years ago 2.5 -
Male on top of a clump of spinifex grass (video still)
Locality Hattah-Kulkyne National Park, Victoria, Australia (Monotypic species)
Peter Waanders 24 October 2008 2 years ago 2
- No sound recordings available yet
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