Blue-headed Fantail - BirdForum Opus

Photo © by Romy Ocon
Mount Makiling, Laguna Province, Philippines, August 2004

Rhipidura cyaniceps

Identification

18 cm (7 in)

• Greyish-blue head and mantle

Distribution

South-east Asia: endemic to the Philippines.

Taxonomy

Visayan Fantail and Tablas Fantail have formerly been included in this species.

Subspecies

There are 2 subspecies^[1]:

• R. c. pinicola:

• Philippines (highlands of northern Luzon)

• R. c. cyaniceps:

• Philippines (Luzon and Catanduanes)

Habitat

Understory of forests up to 2000m.

Behaviour

Diet

They feed in the understorey up to 15m. Their diet consists almost entirely of flying insects caught in short flights. They join in mixed species foraging flocks.

References

1. Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, D. Roberson, T. A. Fredericks, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2018. The eBird/Clements checklist of birds of the world: v2018. Downloaded from http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
2. Gill, F and D Donsker (Eds). 2012. IOC World Bird Names (version 3.2). Available at http://www.worldbirdnames.org/.
3. Romy Ocon
4. Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive (retrieved Sept 2018)

• List of references

Recommended Citation

• BirdForum Opus contributors. (2021) Blue-headed Fantail. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 13 May 2021 from https://www.birdforum.net/wiki/Blue-headed_Fantail

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