Arafura Fantail
UncommonGBIF 49.3·Dongniao Rarity Index9.50
英文名：Arafura Fantail（学名：Rhipidura dryas），是雀形目扇尾鹟科的鸟类。16厘米；翼展约21厘米。类似于 棕额扇尾鹟 但较暗淡，较长的尾呈更显著的凸尾状；上体的橙棕红色止于尾基部，尾的其余部分呈铅灰色，各尾羽具宽阔白端；黑色大喉斑边缘的白色扇形鳞纹不如 棕额扇尾鹟 那样明显。幼鸟：类似于成鸟但较淡，喉部黑色较少。通过空中迎击和悬停觅食，通常位置较低，包括在地面上；展尾并弹翅。
Arafura Fantail
16 cm; span c. 21 cm. Similar to Rufous Fantail but duller, longer tail is more strongly graduated; orange–rufous in upperparts ends at base of tail, remainder of tail leaden-grey with broad white tip to each tail feather ; large black throat patch not as strongly scalloped white as in Rufous Fantail. Immature: similar to adult but paler, less black on throat. Forages by hawking and hovering, often low, including on ground; fans tail and flicks wings.
- Other name
- Wood Fantail
- Similar Species
- Rufous Fantail, ranges may overlap slightly in se. Gulf of Carpentaria and w. Cape York, e.g. Aurukun region.
- Voice
- high-pitched ‘seep-seep-sep’; soft ‘chip chip’ contact-calls.
- Habitat
- mangroves, riverine forests of melaleuca, pandanus; monsoon rainforest and vine thickets.
- Breeding
- Sept.–Dec.
- Nest
- similar to Rufous Fantail, often less than 2 m above ground or water.
- Eggs
- 2; pale, buff, dotted with warm brown in well-defined zone at large end.
- Range & Status
- Banda-Arafura Arch. – Lesser Sunda Is., s. New Guinea and n. Aust. Coastal n. Aust. from Yampi Sound (WA) to w. Cape York n. to Aurukun (Q). Sedentary, perhaps some movement away from riverine environments during wet season.
