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The chestnut-naped forktail is 18 to 20 cm (7.1–7.9 in) long and weighs 27 g (0.95 oz). The head of the male is chestnut-coloured, with a white forehead and black mask in front of the eye. The wings are black with a white wing-bar. The breast is white with black barring, fading towards the white belly. The rump is white and the tail is black with white stripes and a white tip. The female is the same as the male except the back and mantle is chestnut. The chestnut-naped forktail calls in flight, either a single or three whistles.
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When to see the Chestnut-naped Forktail
One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 10 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is July, the month with the most records.
Where to see the Chestnut-naped Forktail
The map shades 3 countries with regular records, and 1 more in a lighter tone where the bird turns up only as a stray. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.
Recorded as a rare visitor in Myanmar (Burma).
About the Chestnut-naped Forktail
The chestnut-naped forktail is a species of bird in the flycatcher and chat family Muscicapidae. The species is monotypic, having no subspecies. It is found in Sundaland, in southern Burma and Thailand to Peninsular Malaysia, as well as Sumatra and Borneo. The species is not migratory.
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Easily confused with
Bornean ForktailEnicurus borneensisThe Bornean forktail is a small, black and white bird, with a long and deeply forked tail, in the Old World flycatcher family.
Black-backed ForktailEnicurus immaculatusA medium-sized forktail, the black-backed forktail is between 20.5 and 23 centimetres (8+1⁄8 and 9 in).
Sunda ForktailEnicurus velatusThe Sunda forktail is 16 cm (6.3 in) in length with a deeply forked tail.
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