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title: "Bont elfje"
description: "Malurus lamberti — Vogels. The variegated fairywren (Malurus lamberti) is a fairywren that lives in eastern Australia."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/nl/animal/variegated-fairywren
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Bont elfje

> Malurus lamberti — Vogels. The variegated fairywren (Malurus lamberti) is a fairywren that lives in eastern Australia.

- Scientific name: *Malurus lamberti*
- Category: `birds` (Vogels)
- Habitats: unknown
- iNaturalist observations: 5204
- Wikidata: [Q1164379](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1164379)
- iNaturalist taxon: [12097](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/12097)

## Names

- en: Variegated Fairywren
- de: Weißbauch-Staffelschwanz
- es: Maluro variegado
- fr: Mérion de Lambert
- nl: Bont elfje
- pl: Chwostka rudoskrzydła

## Countries with the most observations

AU (4991)

## Summary

The variegated fairywren (Malurus lamberti) is a fairywren that lives in eastern Australia. As a species that exhibits sexual dimorphism, the brightly coloured breeding male has chestnut shoulders and azure crown and ear coverts, while non-breeding males, females and juveniles have predominantly grey-brown plumage, although females of two subspecies have mainly blue-grey plumage.
Like other fairywrens, the variegated fairywren is a cooperative breeding species, with small groups of birds maintaining and defending small territories year-round. Groups consist of a socially monogamous pair with several helper birds who…

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variegated_fairywren

## Photo

![Bont elfje](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/variegated-fairywren/medium.jpg)

Photo: Jess Miller-Camp · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/37055750

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/variegated-fairywren?lang=nl` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).