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Fairy wrens in the fantastic indoor aviary of the Melbourne Museum.
The Maluridae are a family of small, insectivorous passerine birds endemic to Australia and New Guinea. Commonly known as wrens, they are unrelated to the true wrens of the Northern Hemisphere. The family includes 14 species of fairywren, 3 emu-wrens, and 10 grasswrens including fairy wren found in the eastrn Australia
