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Alternative Name: White-winged Fantail

Rhipidura cockerelli

Includes: White-gorgeted Fantail

Identification

Distribution

Papua New Guinea and most of the Solomon Islands.

Taxonomy

Subspecies coultasi may be split as "White-gorgeted Fantail", R. coultasi. Other subspecies (albina, cockerelli, floridana, interposita, lavellae, septentrionalis) may be split as "White-winged Fantail", R. cockerelli (strict sense).

Subspecies

Taxa we include here which Clements recognises [1]:

  • R. c. septentrionalis: "White-winged Fantail". Solomon Islands (Buka, Bougainville and Shortland)
  • R. c. interposita: "White-winged Fantail". Solomon Islands (Choiseul and Santa Isabel)
  • R. c. floridana: "White-winged Fantail". Solomon Islands (Florida and Tulagi)
  • R. c. cockerelli: "White-winged Fantail". Solomon Islands (Guadalcanal)
  • R. c. lavellae: "White-winged Fantail". Solomon Islands (Vellalavella and Ranongga)
  • R. c. albina: "White-winged Fantail". Solomon Islands (Kolombangara and Rendova)
  • R. c. coultasi: "White-gorgeted Fantail". Solomon Islands (Malaita)

Habitat

Primary and old-growth secondary forest to about 1,000 m.

Behaviour

The diet includes small insects and invertebrates.

References

  1. Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, S. M. Billerman, T. A. Fredericks, J. A. Gerbracht, D. Lepage, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2021. The eBird/Clements checklist of Birds of the World: v2021. Downloaded from https://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
  2. Boles, W., J. del Hoyo, D. A. Christie, and N. Collar (2020). Cockerell's Fantail (Rhipidura cockerelli), version 1.0. In Birds of the World (S. M. Billerman, B. K. Keeney, P. G. Rodewald, and T. S. Schulenberg, Editors). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.2173/bow.whwfan1.01
  3. Lepage D. (2021) [Avibase - https://avibase.ca/8B16299C]. Retrieved 13 September 2021

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