Philippine Pied Fantail

Rhipidura nigritorquis

Least Concern · IUCN Red List

LCLeast ConcernInvertebratesWoodlandCup nestSmall · 17 g

What the Philippine Pied Fantail sounds like

Sonogram of the Philippine Pied Fantail: time runs left to right, pitch bottom to top, and the brighter the mark the louder the sound.
Recorded by Derek Paulo · Call, flight call · CPAC, Murcia, Negros Occidental, Western Visayas, Philippines · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via xeno-canto
Sonogram of the Philippine Pied Fantail: time runs left to right, pitch bottom to top, and the brighter the mark the louder the sound.
Recorded by Derek Paulo · Call, flight call · CPAC, Murcia, Negros Occidental, Western Visayas, Philippines · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via xeno-canto
Sonogram of the Philippine Pied Fantail: time runs left to right, pitch bottom to top, and the brighter the mark the louder the sound.
Recorded by Derek Paulo · Song · CPAC, Murcia, Negros Occidental, Western Visayas, Philippines · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via xeno-canto

When to see the Philippine Pied Fantail

One bar for each month, and every month is filled: this bird is recorded here in all twelve. The wide bar is February, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Philippine Pied Fantail

Regular rangeRare visitor

The map shades 1 country 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 Taiwan.

About the Philippine Pied Fantail

The Philippine pied fantail is a medium-size species of bird in the family Rhipiduridae endemic to the Philippines. It was formerly considered conspecific with the Malaysian pied fantail.

Text adapted from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

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