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White-bellied Fantail Rhipidura euryura Scientific name definitions

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

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Originally Appeared in

HBW Alive

Field Identification

18 cm. Has broad white supercilium; otherwise, dark slaty blue-grey above, tail slaty grey, four outer pairs of rectrices broadly tipped white; throat and breast dull grey, remaining underparts white; iris dark brown; bill and legs black. Sexes alike. Juvenile undescribed.

Systematics History

In past, sometimes treated as a race of R. perlata (but see that species). Monotypic.

Subspecies

Monotypic.

Distribution

Java.

Habitat

Montane forest, at 900–2750 m.

Movement

Resident.

Diet and Foraging

Small flying insects, including ants (Hymenoptera). Usually found in middle storey in or near dense vegetation. Some­times joins mixed-species foraging flocks.

Sounds and Vocal Behavior

Excited squeaks, “cheet cheet”.

Breeding

Season May–Jun. Nest a small cup of fine fibres and twigs covered in thick layer of spider web, built within a few metres of ground. Clutch 2 eggs, dirty cream to creamy white, with irregular flecks of light buff-brown to dark olive forming zone around larger end (scattered underlying flecks of greyish or olive-buff), average 18·7 × 14·2 mm; no information on incubation and fledging periods.

Conservation Status

Conservation status on Birdlife LC Least Concern
Not globally threatened. Restricted-range species: present in Java and Bali Forests EBA. Uncommon to locally common; particularly numerous on lower slopes. Occurs in Gunung Gede-Pangrango National Park.
Distribution of the White-bellied Fantail - Range Map
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Distribution of the White-bellied Fantail

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Recommended Citation

Boles, W. (2020). White-bellied Fantail (Rhipidura euryura), 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.whbfan1.01
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