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Northern Fantail

Rhipidura rufiventris

Photo by Liana
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Field Notes

Description:

Gray, white streaked breast-band. Pale buff body. Tiny dull brow mark. Upper parts dark gray, sides of face blackish. Tail edged and tipped white on outer feathers. Tail edged white.

Habitat:

Usually around margins of rainforest, monsoon and vine scrub, paperbarks and mangroves, also in adjoining eucalypt forest and woodland.

Notes:

My first reference for identification: The Michael Morcombe eGuide to Australian Birds, Mobile App.

The first photo is the male perched alone. The second is with a female.

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Northern Fantail (Rhipidura rufiventris)

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