Kadavu Fantail

Taxobox
name = Kadavu Fantail


status = NT | status_system = IUCN3.1
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Aves
ordo = Passeriformes
familia = Rhipiduridae
genus = "Rhipidura"
species = "R. personata"
binomial = "Rhipidura personata"
binomial_authority = E.P. Ramsay, 1876
synonyms = The Kadavu Fantail ("Rhipidura personata") is a species of bird in the fantail family Rhipiduridae.It is endemic to Kadavu and Ono in the Kadavu Islands, Fiji. It is closely related to the Streaked Fantail of the rest of Fiji, and forms a superspecies with the numerous island species of fantail ranging from the Solomon Islands (the Brown Fantail) to Samoa (the Samoan Fantail).

The Kadavu Fantail is restricted to tropical moist lowland forests, where it feeds by flycatching for insects. It sometimes joins mixed-species feeding flocks with Polynesian Trillers, Fiji Bush-warblers and Silvereyes. The breeding season is October and November. It is threatened by habitat loss.

ource

* BirdLife International 2006. [http://www.iucnredlist.org/search/details.php/19624/all Rhipidura personata] . [http://www.iucnredlist.org 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. ] Downloaded on 27 July 2007.