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Genus: Rhipidura (51 species)


White-throated Fantail (Rhipidura albicollis atrata) Range: OR: Himalayas from n Pakistan to c China, Vietnam, Sumatra and Borneo Fraser's Hill, Pahang, Malaysia
Photograph by Wokoti © All Rights Reserved.


White-throated Fantail (Rhipidura albicollis) Range: OR: Himalayas from n Pakistan to c China, Vietnam, Sumatra and Borneo Borneo
Photograph by Lip Kee Yap Copyright and usage info This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 3.0 License. In short: you are free to share and make derivative works of the file under the conditions that you appropriately attribute it, and that you distribute it only under a license identical to this one.


Grey Fantail (Rhipidura albiscapa) Range: AU: Australia, Solomon Is., Vanuatu and New Caledonia Australia
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Visayan Fantail (Rhipidura albiventris) Range: OR: Ticao, Masbate, Panay, Guimaras and Negros (wc Philippines)


White-spotted Fantail (Rhipidura albogularis) Range: OR: s India Conoor, India
Photograph by Bradley Hacker © All Rights Reserved.


Friendly Fantail (Rhipidura albolimbata) Range: AU: montane New Guinea Papua New Guinea
Photograph by Stephen G. Davis © All Rights Reserved.


Black Fantail (Rhipidura atra) Range: AU: montane New Guinea Mokwam, West Papua, Indonesia
Photograph by Nigel Voaden © All Rights Reserved.


White-browed Fantail (Rhipidura aureola) Range: OR: widespread Sri Lanka
Photograph by Bob Du © All Rights Reserved.

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Dimorphic Fantail (Rhipidura brachyrhyncha) Range: AU: montane New Guinea

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Cockerell's Fantail (Rhipidura cockerelli) Range: AU: n to sc Solomon Is.

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Blue-headed Fantail (Rhipidura cyaniceps) Range: OR: Luzon group (n Philippines)

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Bismarck Fantail (Rhipidura dahli) Range: AU: montane e Bismarck Arch.


Streak-breasted Fantail (Rhipidura dedemi) Range: AU: montane Seram (ec Moluccas) Seram Island, Central Moluccas, Indonesia
Photograph by David Cook Copyright and usage info This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 Unported. In short: you are free to share and make derivative works of the file for non-commercial purposes under the conditions that you appropriately attribute it, and that you distribute it only under a license identical to this one.

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Brown-capped Fantail (Rhipidura diluta) Range: AU: w, c Lesser Sundas

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Brown Fantail (Rhipidura drownei) Range: AU: montane n, sc Solomon Is.


Arafura Fantail (Rhipidura dryas) Range: AU: Lesser Sundas, sc New Guinea and satellites, and n Australia Fogg Dam Conservation Reserve, Middle Point, Northern Territory, Australia
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White-bellied Fantail (Rhipidura euryura) Range: OR: montane Java


New Zealand Fantail (Rhipidura fuliginosa fuliginosa) Range: AU: North, South, Stewart and Chatham is. (New Zealand) and Lord Howe I. (e of Australia, where extinct) Diamond Lake, Wanaka, South Island, New Zealand
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New Zealand Fantail (Rhipidura fuliginosa) Range: AU: North, South, Stewart and Chatham is. (New Zealand) and Lord Howe I. (e of Australia, where extinct) New Zealand A small percentage of New Zealand Fantails are black.
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Cinnamon-tailed Fantail (Rhipidura fuscorufa) Near Threatened Range: AU: Babar (far e Lesser Sundas) and Tanimbar Is. (s Moluccas)

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Peleng Fantail (Rhipidura habibiei) Range: AU: montane Peleng (Banggai Is., e of Sulawesi)

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Chestnut-bellied Fantail (Rhipidura hyperythra) Range: AU: New Guinea and satellites


Malaysian Pied Fantail (Rhipidura javanica longicauda) Range: OR: se Asia, Greater Sundas and Lombok (w Lesser Sundas) Laem Phak Bia, Ban Laem, Phetchaburi, Thailand
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Biak Fantail (Rhipidura kordensis) Range: AU: Biak (Geelvink Bay is., nw New Guinea)

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Pohnpei Fantail (Rhipidura kubaryi) Range: PO: Pohnpei (=Ponape, e Caroline Is., c Micronesia)

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Palau Fantail (Rhipidura lepida) Range: PO: Palau (w Caroline Is., w Micronesia)


Willie Wagtail (Rhipidura leucophrys) Range: AU: Moluccas, New Guinea area, Australia (except Tasmania), Bismarck Arch. and Solomon Is.
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White-bellied Thicket Fantail (Rhipidura leucothorax) Range: AU: New Guinea

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Black Thicket Fantail (Rhipidura maculipectus) Range: AU: Raja Ampat Is. (nw of New Guinea), Aru Is. (sw of New Guinea), nw and s New Guinea

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Malaita Fantail (Rhipidura malaitae) Vulnerable Range: AU: montane Malaita (sc Solomon Is.)

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Mussau Fantail (Rhipidura matthiae) Near Threatened Range: AU: Mussau (St. Matthias Is., nc Bismarck Arch.)

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Samoan Fantail (Rhipidura nebulosa) Range: PO: Savaii and Upolu (w Samoa, c Polynesia)

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Philippine Pied Fantail (Rhipidura nigritorquis) Range: OR: Philippines

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Black-and-cinnamon Fantail (Rhipidura nigrocinnamomea) Range: OR: montane Mindanao (s Philippines)

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Long-tailed Fantail (Rhipidura opistherythra) Near Threatened Range: AU: Tanimbar Is. (s Moluccas)


Spotted Fantail (Rhipidura perlata) Range: OR: Malay Pen., Sumatra and Borneo Panti Forest Reserve, Johor, Malaysia
Photograph by Daniel Koh (Singapore) © All Rights Reserved.


Spotted Fantail (Rhipidura perlata) Range: OR: Malay Pen., Sumatra and Borneo Malaysia
Photograph by Daniel Koh (Singapore) © All Rights Reserved.

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Kadavu Fantail (Rhipidura personata) Near Threatened Range: PO: Kadavu and Ono (ne of Kadavu; sw Fiji, sw Polynesia)

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Mangrove Fantail (Rhipidura phasiana) Range: AU: sw Trans-Fly (sc New Guinea), s coast of se New Guinea and w WA to nw QLD (coastal n Australia)

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Rufous-tailed Fantail (Rhipidura phoenicura) Range: OR: montane Java

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Rennell Fantail (Rhipidura rennelliana) Range: AU: Rennell (se Solomon Is.)

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Rufous-backed Fantail (Rhipidura rufidorsa) Range: AU: New Guinea and nw satellites


Rufous Fantail (Rhipidura rufifrons) Male Range: AU, PO: widespread; n Moluccas, islets e of se New Guinea, Australia, Solomon Is., and w Micronesia Australia
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Northern Fantail (Rhipidura rufiventris) Range: AU: widespread, e Lesser Sundas, Moluccas, New Guinea region, Bismarck Arch. and n Australia Waigeo, West Papua, Indonesia
Photograph by Nigel Voaden © All Rights Reserved.

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Visayan Blue Fantail (Rhipidura samarensis) Range: OR: Bohol, Leyte and Samar (ec Philippines)

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Tablas Fantail (Rhipidura sauli) Vulnerable Range: OR: Tablas (wc Philippines)

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Manus Fantail (Rhipidura semirubra) Vulnerable Range: AU: islets of Admiralty Is. (nw Bismarck Arch.; extinct on Manus)

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Taliabu Fantail (Rhipidura sulaensis) Range: AU: montane Taliabu (Sula Arch., e of Sulawesi)

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Mindanao Blue Fantail (Rhipidura superciliaris) Range: OR: Mindanao and Basilan (s Philippines)

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Tawny-backed Fantail (Rhipidura superflua) Range: AU: montane Buru (wc Moluccas)

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Makira Fantail (Rhipidura tenebrosa) Near Threatened Range: AU: Makira (=San Cristobal, se Solomon Is.)

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Sulawesi Fantail (Rhipidura teysmanni) Range: AU: montane Sulawesi


Sooty Thicket Fantail (Rhipidura threnothorax threnothorax) Range: AU: New Guinea and satellites Nimbokrang, West Papua, Indonesia
Photograph by Nigel Voaden © All Rights Reserved.


Streaked Fantail (Rhipidura verreauxi verreauxi) Range: PO: Vanuatu to New Caledonia and w, c Fiji (sw Polynesia) New Caledonia
Photograph by JJ Harrison Copyright and usage info This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported. In short: you are free to share and make derivative works of the file under the conditions that you appropriately attribute it, and that you distribute it only under a license identical to this one.

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