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Location: Macabebe wetlands, Pampanga, Luzon Island, Philippines

Rhipidura javanica

Includes: Philippine Pied Fantail

[edit] Identification

18cm; dark plumage; long broad tail which it often fans out. Genders look alike.

Adult: Narrow black breast band contrasting with white throat and whitish belly. Upperparts dark/slaty grey; tail black tipped with white; eyebrow white.

Female: Rusty brown rump, upper tail coverts and wings; breast band smaller and blotched with white.

In flight: Rump appears white due to overlap of long flank feathers.

[edit] Distribution

Southeast Asia.

[edit] Taxonomy

[edit] Subspecies^[1]

• R.j.longicauda southeast Asia to Sumatra, Borneo and adjacent islands
• R.j.javanica Java and Bali; single record from Lombok
• R.j.nigritorquis Philippine Islands and Sulu Archipelago - sometimes accepted as full species, Philippine Pied Fantail

[edit] Habitat

Mangroves

[edit] Behaviour

Diet includes insects.

Breeding takes place February to July; the nest is built of plant fibres and spiders' webs in a conical shape. 2 yellow-white eggs are laid.

They have a habit of fanning out their long tails.

[edit] References

1. Clements, JF. 2009. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to December 2009. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019.

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