Rhipidura: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Aves
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Rhipiduridae
- Genus
- Rhipidura
- Species
- Scientific Name
- Rhipidura
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Fantail
Fantails are small insectivorous songbirds of the genus Rhipidura in the family Rhipiduridae, native to Australasia, Southeast Asia and the Indian subcontinent. Most of the species are about 15 to 18 cm (5.9 to 7.1 in) long, specialist aerial feeders, and named as "fantails", but the Australian willie wagtail is a little larger, and, though still an expert hunter of insects on the wing, concentrates equally on terrestrial prey.
The true wagtails are part of the genus Motacilla in the family Motacillidae and are not close relatives of the fantails.
...Rhipidura in languages:
- Bokmål
- Viftestjerter
- Danish
- Viftehaler
- English
- Fantails
- French
- Rhipidures
- German
- Fächerschwänze
- Japanese
- オウギビタキ属
- Russian
- Веерохвостки
- Thai
- สกุล นกอีแพรด
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
Child Taxa
- Rhipidura albicollis
- Rhipidura albiscapa
- Rhipidura albiventris
- Rhipidura albogularis
- Rhipidura albolimbata
- Rhipidura atra
- Rhipidura aureola
- Rhipidura brachyrhyncha
- Rhipidura cockerelli
- Rhipidura cyaniceps
- Rhipidura dahli
- Rhipidura dedemi
- Rhipidura diluta
- Rhipidura drownei
- Rhipidura dryas
- Rhipidura euryura
- Rhipidura fuliginosa
- Rhipidura fuscorufa
- Rhipidura habibiei
- Rhipidura hyperythra
- Rhipidura javanica
- Rhipidura kubaryi
- Rhipidura lepida
- Rhipidura leucophrys
- Rhipidura leucothorax
- Rhipidura maculipectus
- Rhipidura malaitae
- Rhipidura matthiae
- Rhipidura nebulosa
- Rhipidura nigritorquis
- Rhipidura nigrocinnamomea
- Rhipidura opistherythra
- Rhipidura perlata
- Rhipidura personata
- Rhipidura phasiana
- Rhipidura phoenicura
- Rhipidura rennelliana
- Rhipidura rufidorsa
- Rhipidura rufifrons
- Rhipidura rufiventris
- Rhipidura samarensis
- Rhipidura sauli
- Rhipidura semirubra
- Rhipidura sulaensis
- Rhipidura superciliaris
- Rhipidura superflua
- Rhipidura tenebrosa
- Rhipidura teysmanni
- Rhipidura threnothorax
- Rhipidura verreauxi
































































