White-browed fantail
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R. aureola
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| Rhipidura aureola Lesson, 1830
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The white-browed fantail (Rhipidura aureola) is a small passerine bird.
The white-browed fantail breeds across tropical regions of the Indian Subcontinent and Southeast Asia. The species ranges from India east to Vietnam, also being seen in Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia and Laos. This Old World flycatcher 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.
Gallery
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AB014 Whitebrowed Fantail Flycatcher.jpg
in Thar desert, India.
References
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- Birds of India by Grimmett, Inskipp and Inskipp, ISBN 0-691-04910-6
