Fan tails

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Fan tails
White-throated fan-tail (Rhipidura albicollis), India

White-throated fan-tail ( Rhipidura albicollis ), India

Systematics
Subclass : New-jawed birds (Neognathae)
Order : Passerines (Passeriformes)
Subordination : Songbirds (passeri)
Superfamily : Corvoidea
Family : Fantails (Rhipiduridae)
Genre : Fan tails
Scientific name
Rhipidura
Vigors & Horsfield , 1827
Spreading the tail plumage of the garden fan tail
Garden fan tail, south of Perth
White-forehead fan-tail in Sindhrot in Vadodara District, Gujarat in India
Fox fan tail on nest

The fan tails ( Rhipidura ) are a genus of the family of the same name of the fan tails (Rhipiduridae), which belongs to the songbirds . Most species are 15 to 18 cm long and specialize in catching flying insects.

There are about 43 different species in the genus of the fan tail. The distribution extends from India through Southeast Asia and Australia to the Southwest Pacific. New Zealand is home to three endemic subspecies of the gray fan tail ( Rhipidura fuliginosa ). The white forehead fan tail ( R. aureola ) is found in India , Southeast Asia and southern China . Australia is, among other things, the home of the fox fan tail and the garden fan tail ( R. leucophrys ), which is one of the largest fan tails with a length of approx. 20 cm and hunts prey on the ground in addition to flying insects. In Australia this species is one of the most famous and common birds. Due to its noticeable tail movements, it is called Willie Wagtail (Willie wiggle tail) in English usage .

features

Fan tails are very small birds with a long, obliquely erect, fan-out tail . Their heads are small with a short beak and distinct beak bristles. Their wings are rounded.

species

literature

  • PJ Higgins, JM Peter and SJ Cowling: Handbook of Australian, New Zealand & Antarctic Birds: Volume 7 Boatbill to Starlings, Part A: Boatbill to Larks. Oxford University Press, Melbourne 2006, ISBN 978-0-195-55884-5 .

Web links

Commons : Fanned Tails ( Rhipidura )  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Higgins, Peter & Cowling: Handbook of Australian, New Zealand & Antarctic Birds: Volume 7 Boatbill to Starlings, Part A: Boatbill to Larks. P. 225.
  2. ↑ Bruce M. Beehler, Thane K. Pratt: Birds of New Guinea: Distribution, Taxonomy, and Systematics. 2016, Princeton University Press, ISBN 978-0691164243 , p. 407.
  3. ↑ after the taxonomy of Clements, 6th edition, as used in Avibase
  4. ↑ Handbook of the Birds of the World on the Timor Fan Tail , accessed on May 19, 2017.
  5. ↑ Widow's fan tail ( Rhipidura rufiventris ) at Avibase
  6. ↑ Handbook of the Birds of the World on the Strichelfächerschwanz , accessed on May 19, 2017.
  7. ↑ Handbook of the Birds of the World on the New Zealand fan tail , accessed May 19, 2017.
  8. ↑ New Zealand fan tail, also gray fan tail ( Rhipidura fuliginosa ) at Avibase
  9. ↑ Handbook of the Birds of the World on the gray fan tail , accessed on May 19, 2017.
  10. ↑ Gray fan tail ( Rhipidura albiscapa ) at Avibase