White-browed Fantail

White-browed Fantail

Taxobox
name = White-browed Fantail



image_size = 250px
image_caption = White-browed Fantail in a garden in Thar Desert India.
status = LC | status_system = IUCN3.1
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Aves
ordo = Passeriformes
familia = Rhipiduridae
genus = "Rhipidura"
species = "R. aureola"
binomial = "Rhipidura aureola"
binomial_authority = Lesson, 1830

The White-browed Fantail, "Rhipidura aureola", is a small passerine bird.

The White-browed Fantail breeds across tropical southern Asia from India and Sri Lanka east to Vietnam. This species is found in forest and other woodland. Three eggs are laid in a small cup nest in a tree.

Description

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.

References

* Database entry includes justification for why this species is of least concern
* "Birds of India" by Grimmett, Inskipp and Inskipp, ISBN 0-691-04910-6

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