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(zoology) Any bird of the family Maluridae, insectivorous passerine birds endemic to Australia and New Guinea..
Only a few of the 26 malurids have been studied sufficiently closely to reveal their social organization.
A number of typical riparian, reed-dwelling, woodland and tall open forest species that forage in the shrub and ground layers were possibly reduced in abundance and absent (e.g. muscicapids, cuculids, malurids, acanthizids, sylviids).
Fairywrens and Grasswrens, an account of the malurids by well-known ornithologists Ian Rowley and Eleanor Russell, is more than a field guide, but illustrated in guide style, three species to a plate, by Marsack.
Use malurid when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Malurid means (zoology) Any bird of the family Maluridae, insectivorous passerine birds endemic to Australia and New Guinea..
Common synonyms include malurid wren, Australasian wren.
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Only a few of the 26 malurids have been studied sufficiently closely to reveal their social organization.
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