Northern Fantail
Rhipidura rufiventris
Small songbird with long tail, slim bill. Dark gray above, pale below, with a variably dark gray chest band. Often droops tail, showing very long white tips to tail feathers. Gray Fantail has pale wingbars, a narrower thin black breast band, and more prominent eyebrow. Inhabits dense vegetation of paperbark forests, mangroves, and swamps.
Taxonomy
- Scientific name
- Rhipidura rufiventris
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Rhipiduridae
- Genus
- Rhipidura
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