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White-Spotted Fantail (Rhipidura albogularis)

White-Spotted Fantail (Rhipidura albogularis) adults is about 19 cm long. It has a dark fan-shaped tail, edged in white, and white supercilium and throat. Birds are mainly slate grey above, with a black eye mask, and a white throat and eyebrow. It has whitish underparts, and a grey breast band that is spotted white. It is insectivorous, and often fans its tail as it moves through the undergrowth.It uses the same song year after year, with progressively small changes, with the result that the song sounds very different after 4–5 years. The male's call is a valuable tool in detection and identification of the bird.

 

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Uploaded on November 17, 2019
Taken on October 13, 2018