White-winged Fantail

Rhipidura cockerelli

Slender, with a long, often fanned tail. Dark above, with a white belly and boldly white-streaked black chest. White panel in wing varies among subspecies. Prefers primary and tall secondary forest, but tolerates disturbed areas. Similar to Brown Fantail but darker above, lacks prominent white eyebrow, and has a more heavily marked chest. Voice is a rising and falling series of squeaky warbles and chirps.

分类信息

The white-winged fantail was formally described in 1879 by the Australian ornithologist Edward Pierson Ramsay based on a specimen that had been collected by James F. Cockerell on Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands. Ramsay coined the binomial name Sauloprocta cockerelli. The specific epithet was chosen to honour the collector. This species is now placed with the other fantails in the genus Rhipidura that was introduced in 1827 by the naturalists Nicholas Vigors and Thomas Horsfield.<p>Six subspecies are recognised:<p>The white-gorgeted fantail (Rhipidura coultasi) was formerly treated as a subspecies. It is endemic to the island of Malaita in the southeast Solomon Islands.

学名
Rhipidura cockerelli
命名信息
(Ramsay, EP, 1879)
Passeriformes
Rhipiduridae
Rhipidura

分布与栖息地

迁徙
Resident species

保护状况

种群趋势
declining

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