White-browed Fantail
The white-browed fantail (Rhipidura aureola) is a small passerine bird belonging to the family Rhipiduridae. == Description == The adult white-browed fantail is about 18 cm long. It has dark brown upperparts, with white spots on the wings, and whitish underparts. The fan-shaped tail is edged in white, and the long white supercilia meet on the forehead. The throat and eyemask are blackish and border whitish moustachial stripes. == Distribution and habitat == The white-browed fantail breeds across tropical regions of the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia. The species ranges from eastern Pakistan to southern Indochina. It is found in forest and other woodland. == Behaviour and ecology == Three eggs are laid in a small cup nest in a tree. The white-browed fantail is insectivorous, and often fans its tail as it moves through the undergrowth. == Gallery ==
Lunugamvehera National Park
Sri Lanka
+129 birds+30 mammals
Where scrubland meets open water beneath the dry zone sky, one of Sri Lanka’s most underrated wilderness sanctuaries reveals itself […]
VIEW NATIONAL PARKMinneriya National Park
Sri Lanka
+123 birds+30 mammals
Dawn breaks over a sprawling tapestry of dry deciduous woodland and freshwater marshland where ancient granite outcrops punctuate the landscape […]
VIEW NATIONAL PARKWasgamuwa National Park
Sri Lanka
+122 birds+30 mammals
Dawn breaks over a landscape where ancient riverine forests meet sprawling grasslands, carved through by the Mahaweli River’s serpentine passage […]
VIEW NATIONAL PARKAngamedilla National Park
Polonnaruwa, Sri Lanka
+122 birds+30 mammals
Where granite outcrops rise dramatically from dry deciduous forest, Sri Lanka’s central highlands reveal one of the island’s most rugged […]
VIEW NATIONAL PARKMaduru Oya National Park
Sri Lanka
+123 birds+30 mammals
Granite monoliths rise abruptly from dense dry lowland forest in Sri Lanka’s eastern interior, creating a mosaic of rocky outcrops, […]
VIEW NATIONAL PARKRanthambhore National Park
Sawai Madhopur, India
+126 birds+25 mammals
Where granite fortresses rise from the Aravalli Hills, a sprawling mosaic of dry deciduous forest, grassland, and ten interconnected lakes […]
VIEW NATIONAL PARKTadoba National Park
Palasgaon Singru, India
+133 birds+25 mammals
Where sal forests meet open grasslands and rocky outcrops rise from red laterite soil, central India’s landscape unfolds in raw, […]
VIEW NATIONAL PARKBandhavgarh National Park
Garhpuri, India
+127 birds+26 mammals
Where granite ridges rise dramatically above sal and bamboo forests, one of India’s most pristine tiger reserves unfolds across the […]
VIEW NATIONAL PARKPanna National Park
Badgadi Kalan, India
+136 birds+27 mammals
Where granite gorges slice through central India’s Vindhyan plateau, a landscape of stark beauty unfolds across nearly six hundred square […]
VIEW NATIONAL PARKBandipur National Park
Hirehalli, India
+135 birds+30 mammals
Where the Western Ghats descend into the Deccan plateau, ancient deciduous forests blanket a landscape carved by the Nugu River. […]
VIEW NATIONAL PARKGir National Park
Asundrali, India
150+ birds+12 mammals
Where granite ridges rise above dense deciduous forest and seasonal rivers carve through sandstone cliffs, a remarkable refuge persists in […]
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