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Streak-breasted Fantail Rhipidura dedemi Scientific name definitions

Walter Boles
Version: 1.0 — Published March 4, 2020
Text last updated January 1, 2006

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HBW Alive

Field Identification

13–14 cm; 10–12 g. Has supercilium from lores to above orbit white, bordered above and below with black, large white postorbital spot; forehead, top and side of head and neck to mantle brown, remainder of upperparts rusty red; primaries brown, outer webs edged with rusty red, inner webs with pale rufous, secondaries rusty red with black shaft stripes, upperwing-coverts brown, median coverts tipped white; outer pair of rectrices wholly bright rufous-red, tip paler, distal part of inner web with blackish-brown patch, remaining rectrices bright rufous-red on basal half, blackish-brown on distal half, tipped with rufous; chin and throat white, breast black, feathers of lower breast broadly edged white, belly and undertail-coverts rusty red, flanks brown; iris dark brown; bill and legs light horn-coloured. Sexes alike. Juvenile undescribed.

Systematics History

Monotypic.

Subspecies

Monotypic.

Distribution

Mountains of Seram, in S Moluccas.

Habitat

Forest undergrowth; at 500–1500 m, occasionally to 2200 m.

Movement

Resident.

Diet and Foraging

Insects, including beetles. Joins mixed-species flocks. No other information available.

Sounds and Vocal Behavior

Rapidly repeated medium-pitched musical notes.

Breeding

Nest with 2 eggs in Apr/May. No other information.

Conservation Status

Conservation status on Birdlife LC Least Concern
Not globally threatened. Restricted-range species: present in Seram EBA. Common within small single-island range.
Distribution of the Streak-breasted Fantail - Range Map
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Distribution of the Streak-breasted Fantail

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Recommended Citation

Boles, W. (2020). Streak-breasted Fantail (Rhipidura dedemi), version 1.0. In Birds of the World (J. del Hoyo, A. Elliott, J. Sargatal, D. A. Christie, and E. de Juana, Editors). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.2173/bow.stbfan1.01
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