Visayan fantail
| Visayan fantail | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Rhipiduridae |
| Genus: | Rhipidura |
| Species: | R. albiventris |
| Binomial name | |
| Rhipidura albiventris (Sharpe, 1877) | |
The Visayan fantail (Rhipidura albiventris) is a fantail endemic to the Philippines on the islands of Negros, Panay, Guimaras, Masbate and Ticao. Until recently, it was considered conspecific with the blue-headed fantail and the Tablas fantail.
Description and taxonomy
[edit]It is differentiated from the blue-headed fantail and Tablas fantail with its white belly and generally lighter coloration.
Ecology and behavior
[edit]The diet of the Mindanao blue fantail consists of insects. It is often observed in mixed flocks with other birds such as Black-naped monarch, Flame-templed babbler, White-vented whistler, Lemon-throated leaf warbler, sunbirds and flowerpeckers.
Breeding has been recorded from February to May. Nest is cup shaped and is relatively open.Lays 2 eggs.[2]
Habitat and conservation status
[edit]Its habitat is in tropical moist primary and secondary forest and forest edge both in the lowlands to montane areas up to 1,800 meters above sea level.[3]
IUCN has assessed this bird as a least-concern species. However, it is said to be already extinct on Guimaras and possibly extinct on Masbate and Ticao Island owing to massive deforestation on those islands.[4]
References
[edit]- ↑ BirdLife International (2016). "Rhipidura albiventris". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016. IUCN: e.T103707879A104309606. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T103707879A104309606.en. Retrieved 15 January 2018.
- ↑ del Hoyo, Josep; Collar, Nigel; Christie, David (2020). "Visayan Fantail (Rhipidura albiventris), version 1.0". Birds of the World. doi:10.2173/bow.visfan1.01. ISSN 2771-3105.
- ↑ Allen, Desmond (2020). Birds of the Philippines. Barcelona: Lynx and Birdlife International Guides. pp. 246–247.
- ↑ International), BirdLife International (BirdLife (2016-10-01). "IUCN Red List of Threatened Species: Rhipidura albiventris". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Retrieved 2021-09-08.
- Sánchez-González, L.A., and R.G. Moyle. 2011. Molecular systematic and species limits in the Philippine fantails (Aves: Rhipidura). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 61: 290–299.
