A small Australian songbird with a long cocked tail, the male of which has partly or mainly blue plumage.
细尾鹩莺
Genus Malurus, family Maluridae: several species, in particular the common superb fairy wren or blue wren (M. cyaneus)
Example sentencesExamples
If a chick of Horsfield's bronze-cuckoo hatches in a superb fairy wren nest and heaves out the rightful chicks, about 40 percent of mother fairy-wrens desert the nest.
Their hosts include weaverbirds and sunbirds in Africa and Asia, as well as fairy wrens and thornbills in Australia.
Then a fairy wren blundered through the kitchen door, turning the cottage into a house trap for birds.
Definition of fairy wren in US English:
fairy wren
noun
A small Australian songbird with a long cocked tail, the male of which has partly or mainly blue plumage.
细尾鹩莺
Genus Malurus, family Maluridae: several species, in particular the common superb fairy wren or blue wren (M. cyaneus)
Example sentencesExamples
Then a fairy wren blundered through the kitchen door, turning the cottage into a house trap for birds.
Their hosts include weaverbirds and sunbirds in Africa and Asia, as well as fairy wrens and thornbills in Australia.
If a chick of Horsfield's bronze-cuckoo hatches in a superb fairy wren nest and heaves out the rightful chicks, about 40 percent of mother fairy-wrens desert the nest.