Birds Guide

Fantails
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia   Phylum: Chordata   Class: Aves   Order: Passeriformes   Family: Dicruridae   Genus: Rhipidura Horsfield and Vigors, 1827
Species
many, see text

Fantails are small insectivorous birds of southern Asia and Australasia all belonging to the genus Rhipidura and subfamily Rhipidurinae. Most of the species are about 15 to 18 cm long, specialist aerial feeders, and named as "fantails", but the Australian Willie Wagtail, is a little larger, and though still an expert hunter of insects on the wing, concentrates equally on terrestrial prey.

It may be noted that the true wagtails are part of the genus Motacilla and family Motacillidae and are not particularly close relatives of the fantails.

Species

• Yellow-bellied Fantail , Rhipidura hypoxantha
  Blue Fantail , Rhipidura superciliaris, (Lower risk (lc))
  Blue-headed Fantail , Rhipidura cyaniceps
  Rufous-tailed Fantail , Rhipidura phoenicura, (Lower risk (lc))
  Black-and-cinnamon Fantail , Rhipidura nigrocinnamomea, (Lower risk (lc))
  White-throated Fantail , Rhipidura albicollis
  Spot-breasted Fantail , Rhipidura albogularis, (Lower risk (lc))
  White-bellied Fantail , Rhipidura euryura, (Lower risk (lc))
  White-browed Fantail , Rhipidura aureola
  Northern Fantail , Rhipidura rufiventris, (Lower risk (lc))
  Pied Fantail , Rhipidura javanica, (Lower risk (lc))
  Spotted Fantail , Rhipidura perlata, (Lower risk (lc))
  Willie Wagtail , Rhipidura leucophrys
  Brown-capped Fantail , Rhipidura diluta, (Lower risk (lc))
  Cinnamon-tailed Fantail , Rhipidura fuscorufa
  White-winged Fantail , Rhipidura cockerelli, (Lower risk (nt))
  Friendly Fantail , Rhipidura albolimbata, (Lower risk (lc))
  Chestnut-bellied Fantail , Rhipidura hyperythra, (Lower risk (lc))
  Sooty Thicket-Fantail , Rhipidura threnothorax, (Lower risk (lc))
  Black Thicket-Fantail , Rhipidura maculipectus, (Lower risk (lc))
  White-bellied Thicket-Fantail , Rhipidura leucothorax, (Lower risk (lc))
  Black Fantail , Rhipidura atra, (Lower risk (lc))
  Mangrove Fantail , Rhipidura phasiana, (Lower risk (lc))
  Brown Fantail , Rhipidura drownei, (Lower risk (lc))
  Dusky Fantail , Rhipidura tenebrosa, (Lower risk (nt))
  Rennell Fantail , Rhipidura rennelliana, (Lower risk (lc))
  Grey Fantail, Rhipidura fuliginosa
  Streaked Fantail , Rhipidura spilodera, (Lower risk (lc))
  Kandavu Fantail , Rhipidura personata, (Lower risk (lc))
  Samoan Fantail , Rhipidura nebulosa, (Lower risk (lc))
  Dimorphic Fantail , Rhipidura brachyrhyncha, (Lower risk (lc))
  Rusty-flanked Fantail , Rhipidura teysmanni, (Lower risk (lc))
  Cinnamon-backed Fantail , Rhipidura superflua, (Lower risk (lc))
  Streaky-breasted Fantail , Rhipidura dedemi, (Lower risk (lc))
  Long-tailed Fantail , Rhipidura opistherythra, (Lower risk (nt))
  Palau Fantail , Rhipidura lepida, (Lower risk (lc))
  Rufous-backed Fantail , Rhipidura rufidorsa, (Lower risk (lc))
  Matthias Fantail , Rhipidura matthiae
  Bismarck Fantail , Rhipidura dahli
  Malaita Fantail , Rhipidura malaitae
  Manus Fantail , Rhipidura semirubra
  Rufous Fantail , Rhipidura rufifrons
  Pohnpei Fantail, Rhipidura kubaryi

External links

• Fantail videos on the Internet Bird Collection