They adapt well to environs and are found in south-eastern Australia. The male Superb Blue Wren takes on its colour when breeding. Outside the breeding season it becomes brown, like the female, except that its eye patches are paler and its bill remains black.
Details
- Series: 1978 Pre-Stamped Envelope Collection
- Subject: Superb Blue Wren (Malurus cyaneus)
- Designer: Marg Towt, Melbourne
- Printer: Mercury-Walch Pty Ltd, Moonah, Tas.
- Press:
- Process: Multi-colour offset lithography with luminescence impregnated varnish
- Colours:
- Paper: 105 gsm Glacier Offset manufactured by Besley & Pike Pty Ltd, Brisbane
- Quantity: 1,605,970
- 1,066,310 (1 July 1978 to 30 June 1979)
- 539,660 (1 July 1979 to 30 June 1980)
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