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White-browed Fantail

Rhipidura aureola

Description:

The adult White-browed Fantail is about 18 cm long. It has dark brown upperparts, with white spots on the wings, and whitish underparts. The fan-shaped tail is edged in white, and the long white supercilia meet on the forehead. The throat and eyemask are blackish and border whitish moustachial stripes.

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7 Comments

Sachin Zaveri
Sachin Zaveri 11 years ago

Thanks a lot Jellis, Liam & Satyen
ID updated,

Wild Things
Wild Things 11 years ago

Lovely spotting! I'd go with a white browed fantail: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White-browe...

Liam
Liam 11 years ago

There aren't any subspecies with a dark throat like this that I can find.

Jellis
Jellis 11 years ago

If you see there subspecies it could be

Liam
Liam 11 years ago

It very well could be a Little Pied Flycatcher, though I have no explanation for the black on the throat.

Sachin Zaveri
Sachin Zaveri 11 years ago

Thanks Janet Ellis for Suggestion looking forwarded

Jellis
Jellis 11 years ago

Think it maybe a
Ficedula westermanni Little Pied Flycatcher

Sachin Zaveri
Spotted by
Sachin Zaveri

Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India

Spotted on Jun 17, 2012
Submitted on Jun 22, 2012

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