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{{Taxobox
| Taxon_Name       = Elfenblauvogel
| Taxon_WissName   = Irena puella
| Taxon_Rang       = Art
| Taxon_Autor      = (Latham, 1790)
| Taxon2_Name      = Feenvögel
| Taxon2_WissName  = Irena
| Taxon2_Rang      = Gattung
| Taxon3_Name      = Feenvögel
| Taxon3_WissName  = Irenidae
| Taxon3_Rang      = Familie
| Taxon4_Name      = Singvögel
| Taxon4_WissName  = Passeri
| Taxon4_Rang      = Unterordnung
| Taxon5_Name      = Sperlingsvögel
| Taxon5_WissName  = Passeriformes
| Taxon5_Rang      = Ordnung
| Bild             = Fairy bluebird.jpg
| Bildbeschreibung = Elfenblauvogel (Männchen)
}}

thumb|280px|Weibchen
thumb|280px|Verbreitung
Der '''Elfenblauvogel''' (''Irena puella'') ist ein südostasiatischer Singvogel aus der Familie der Feenvögel.

== Merkmale ==
Das Männchen ist glänzend schwarz gefärbt mit leuchtend blauen Gefiederpartien. Die Weibchen ist türkisfarben mit grauen Flügeln und Schwanzfedern. Beide Geschlechter haben rote Augen.

== Vorkommen ==
Ein Verbreitungsgebiet erstreckt sich vom östlichen Java. Im südwestlichen Indien gibt es ein weiteres Verbreitungsgebiet.
Der Vogel lebt in dichten Tropenwäldern.

== Verhalten ==
Der Elfenblauvogel ist meist hoch in den Baumwipfeln in kleinen Trupps unterwegs und sucht nach Früchten. Insekten, Spinnen und Nektar ergänzen die Nahrung.

{{Taxobox
| name = Asian Fairy Bluebird
| status = LC
| image = Lightmatter fairy bluebird.jpg
| image_width = 225px
| image_caption = male
| regnum = Animalia
| phylum = Chordata
| classis = Aves
| ordo = Passeriformes
| familia = Irenidae
| genus = ''Irena ''
| species = '''''I. puella'''''
| binomial = ''Irena puella''
| binomial_authority = (Latham, 1790)
}}

thumb|Male taking off from Peepal (Ficus religiosa) at [[Jayanti in  Buxa Tiger Reserve in Jalpaiguri district of  West Bengal, India. ]]
The '''Asian Fairy Bluebird''', ''Irena puella'', is a medium-sized, arboreal passerine bird.

This fairy-bluebird breeds across tropical southern Asia from the Himalayan foothills, India and Sri Lanka east to Indonesia. This species is found in moist hill-forest. Two or three eggs are laid in a small cup nest in a tree.

The adult Asian Fairy Bluebird is about 27 cm long. The male has glossy, iridescent blue upperparts, and black underparts and flight feathers. The female and first year male are entirely dull blue-green.

The Asian Fairy Bluebird eats fruit, nectar and some insects. Its call is a liquid two note ''glue-it''.

==Description==
thumb|left|Male on Peepal ''[[Ficus religiosa'' at Jayanti in  Buxa Tiger Reserve in Jalpaiguri district of  West Bengal, India. ]]
Male. The whole upper plumage, the lesser wing-coverts, and the under tail-coverts shining ultramarine-blue with lilac reflections; sides of the head and the whole lower plumage deep black ; greater wing-coverts, quills, and tail black, some 
of the coverts tipped with blue, and the middle tail-feathers glossed with blue. 
Female. The whole upper plumage, the lesser wing-coverts, and the lower tail-coverts brownish blue, with the edges of the 
feathers brighter ; middle tail-feathers and the outer webs of all the others, except the outer pair, like the upper plumage ; remainder of tail dark brown ; primaries and secondaries dark brown ; 
the greater wing-coverts, primary- coverts, and tertiaries dark brown, with a blue tinge on the outer webs ; sides of the head and whole lower plumage blue, very similar to the upper parts. 
The young are like the female. The male changes into adult plumage about March, and the change takes place without a moult ; the feathers of the upper parts first become fringed with bright blue ; the tail-coverts next become changed ; the lower plumage takes the longest to change, and young birds may frequently be 
met with having the lower plumage mixed black and dull blue, hut the upper plumage that of the adult. 

Iris crimson ; eyelids pinkish ; bill and legs black ; mouth flesh- colour; claws black. Length 10.5; tail 4.2 ; wing 5.1; tarsus .85; bill from gape 1.2inches.

''I. cyanea'', from the Malay peninsula, differs in having the 
under tail-coverts longer, nearly reaching to the tip of the tail. 
�Distribution. Ceylon ; the western coast of India from Travancore up to the latitude of Belgaum and Sawantwadi; Sikhim and the lower ranges of the Himalayas to Dibrugarh in Assam ; the Khasi hills ; Cachar ; Manipur ; Arrakan ; Pegu ; Tenasserim ; 
the Audamans and Xicobars. This species is confined entirely to the 
evergreen forests of the hills and plains, and it is found up to 
about 4000 feet of elevation. It extends some distance down the 
Malay peninsula and into Siam. 