Arafura Fantail
Photo · Joseph Smit

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Arafura Fantail

Rhipidura dryasGould, 1843

Native
Order
PASSERIFORMES
Commonness
Very common
Best seen
Year-round

01 · Identification

How to tell it apart

The Arafura fantail, sometimes known as the wood fantail, inhabits the Lesser Sunda Islands, the northern coast of Australia from the Kimberley to the western side of the Cape York Peninsula, including subcoastally in the Top End of the Northern Territory, and southern New Guinea. It is similar to the rufous fantail, from which it has been split taxonomically but, apart from minor overlap in the eastern Moluccas, their geographic ranges are discrete. It is generally duller than the rufous fantail with the rufous colouration more restricted.

Description · wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0

02 · Where

Where to find it

Breeding range
Coastal south-central New Guinea north Australia

03 · When

When to look

Months this species is recorded across its Australian range.

  1. Jan
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