White-browed fantail

White-browed fantail
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Rhipiduridae
Genus:	Rhipidura
Species:	R. aureola
Binomial name
Rhipidura aureola Lesson, 1830

The white-browed fantail (Rhipidura aureola) is a small passerine bird.

The white-browed fantail breeds across tropical regions of the Indian Subcontinent and Southeast Asia. The species ranges from India east to Vietnam, also being seen in Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia and Laos. This Old World flycatcher species is found in forest and other woodland. Three eggs are laid in a small cup nest in a tree.

Description

White-browed Fantail nest with an egg on Mango branch - In Bakamuna, Sri Lanka.jpg

The adult white-browed fantail is about 18 cm long. It has dark brown upperparts, with white spots on the wings, and whitish underparts. The fan-shaped tail is edged in white, and the long white supercilia meet on the forehead. The throat and eyemask are blackish and border whitish moustachial stripes.

The white-browed fantail is insectivorous, and often fans its tail as it moves through the undergrowth.

Gallery

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  at Sindhrot in Vadodara District of Gujarat, India.
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  at Sindhrot in Vadodara District of Gujarat, India.
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  at Sindhrot in Vadodara District of Gujarat, India.
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  in Thar desert, India.

References

1. BirdLife International (2012). "Rhipidura aureola". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.2. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 26 November 2013.

• Birds of India by Grimmett, Inskipp and Inskipp, ISBN 0-691-04910-6