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Fairy-bluebirds

Irena

The two fairy-bluebirds are small passerine bird species found in forests and plantations in tropical southern Asia and the Philippines. They are the sole members of the genus Irena and family Irenidae, and are related to the ioras and leafbirds.

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3 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 3 known species

Asian Fairy-bluebird

speciesIrena puella

Philippine Fairy-bluebird

speciesIrena cyanogastra

Palawan Fairy-bluebird

speciesIrena tweeddalii

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 12012.