Visayan fantail
| Visayan fantail | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Rhipiduridae |
| Genus: | Rhipidura |
| Species: | R. albiventris
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| Binomial name | |
| Rhipidura albiventris (Sharpe, 1877)
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The Visayan fantail (Rhipidura albiventris) is a fantail endemic to the Philippines on islands of Negros, Panay, Guimaras, Masbate and Ticao. Until recently, it was considered conspecific with the blue-headed fantail and Tablas fantail.
Description[edit]
EBird describes the bird as "A medium-sized, long-tailed bird of forest . Dull blue on the head, chest, back, and shoulder, with some paler blue streaking on the chest and crown. Has a white belly and a rufous lower back, outer tail feathers, and wing, with dark central tail feathers and a dark edge to the wing. Often cocks and fans tail while foraging. Similar to Black-naped Monarch, but has rufous rump and tail. Voice is a single, nasal 'jep' note given at intervals or sped up into a rapid series."[2]
It is differentiated from the blue-headed fantail and Tablas fantail with its white belly and generally lighter coloration.
It is often seen with mixed species flocks.
Habitat and conservation status[edit]
Its habitat is in tropical moist primary and secondary forest and forest edge both in the lowlands to montane areas up to 1,800 meters above sea level.[3]
IUCN has assessed this bird as a least-concern species. However, it is said to be already extinct on Guimaras and possibly extinct on Masbate and Ticao Island owing to massive deforestation on those islands. [4]
References[edit]
- ^ BirdLife International (2016). "Rhipidura albiventris". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016. IUCN: e.T103707879A104309606. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T103707879A104309606.en. Retrieved 15 January 2018.
- ^ "Visayan Fantail". Ebird.
- ^ Allen, Desmond (2020). Birds of the Philippines. Barcelona: Lynx and Birdlife International Guides. pp. 246–247.
- ^ International), BirdLife International (BirdLife (2016-10-01). "IUCN Red List of Threatened Species: Rhipidura albiventris". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Retrieved 2021-09-08.
- Sánchez-González, L.A., and R.G. Moyle. 2011. Molecular systematic and species limits in the Philippine fantails (Aves: Rhipidura). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 61: 290–299.
