Friendly Fantail (Rhipidura albolimbata)

Family
Rhipiduridae (Fantails)

Size
15 cm

First Described (Guide)
Salvadori, 1874

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical montane moist forest. Also, subtropical and tropical high altitude grassland, moist savanna, heavily degraded former forest, rural gardens.

Range (Guide)

Indonesia (B), Papua New Guinea (B).

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
A series of rising and falling whistling notes.

Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (20)...)

Friendly Fantail (Rhipidura albolimbata) [XC279461]
by Nikolaos Sarikakis from \, Papua New Guinea (call)

Friendly Fantail (Rhipidura albolimbata) [XC122090]
by Niels Krabbe from Tembagapura, Freeport, Papua, Indonesia (call)

Subspecies
Forms a superspecies with Chestnut-bellied Fantail (Rhipidura hyperythra), Grey Fantail (Rhipidura albiscapa), New Zealand Fantail (Rhipidura fuliginosa) and Mangrove Fantail (Rhipidura phasiana).

The following 2 subspecies are recognised:

albolimbata Salvadori, 1874 - Mountains of north-west, northern and eastern New Guinea.
lorentzi van Oort, 1909 - Snow Mts and Central Highlands, in central New Guinea.

References
See References.

Files:

JPG files for Friendly Fantail (Rhipidura albolimbata) - 10 files

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