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Rhipidura aureola

Photo by dineshagg
Photo taken: Ranthambore, Rajasthan India .

[edit] Identification

18 cm. Dark brown upperparts, white spots on the wings, white underparts, fan-shaped tail is edged in white, long white supercilia meet on the forehead, black throat and eyemask which border whitish moustachial stripes.

[edit] Distribution

India and Sri Lanka east to Vietnam.

[edit] Taxonomy

Albogularis from central and southern India is now usually split as Spot-breasted Fantail.

[edit] Habitat

Woodlands and forest.

[edit] Behaviour

A small cup nest is built in a tree and 3 eggs are laid.

The diet includes insects.

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