White forehead fan tail
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White-forehead fan-tail ( Rhipidura aureola ) |
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The white-forehead fan-tail ( Rhipidura aureola ) is a songbird up to 17 centimeters in size from the fan-tail family , which can only be found on the Indian subcontinent .
Appearance
The birds have brown back plumage, the belly, the throat and the underside of the tail are white. The birds have a thick, long stripe on their head that runs horizontally to the eye. The top of the head is black. The beak is black, the legs are brown in color. In some subspecies, the throat is provided with long brown spots and the underside of the tail is brown. The only difference between the sexes is that the females are slightly lighter in color on the head than the males.
Way of life
The birds usually stay on the ground and hunt for insects there, where the birds set up their tails or let them hang down in order to scare away insects, which they then catch on the fly. They also look for them under the bark of rotten trees or they catch them in flight. The birds singing is a melody made up of short whistling tones that rise or fall in pitch.
distribution and habitat
The white forehead fan tail occurs in the countries of Sri Lanka, Pakistan, India and Bangladesh. There they inhabit forests and bush landscapes, and they can also be found in gardens of human settlements.
Reproduction
The birds build a bowl-shaped nest in trees from plant fibers and grass, which they cover with spider silk. The clutch of the female comprises up to three pink or cream-colored eggs. The incubation period is between 12 and 16 days, after which the young remain in the nest for 11 to 17 days. Some broods fall prey to larger birds of prey or mammals. In addition, cuckoos choose them as foster parents for their offspring.
Danger
Due to the wide distribution, the IUCN classifies this species as ( Least Concern ) not endangered.
Source
- Christopher M. Perrins : The Great Encyclopedia of Birds. From the English, Orbis-Verlag, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-572-00810-7 , pp. 294, 296.
- Christopher M. Perrins (Ed.): The FSVO encyclopedia birds of the world. Translated from the English by Einhard Bezzel. BLV, Munich / Vienna / Zurich 2004, ISBN 978-3-405-16682-3 , p. 501 (title of the original English edition: The New Encyclopedia Of Birds. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2003).
Web links
- Rhipidura aureola inthe IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2014.3. Listed by: BirdLife International, 2012. Retrieved March 18, 2015.