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Friday, May 22, 2015

NORTHERN FANTAIL

Photographed at Mornington Sanctuary, Kimberley, Western Australia, May 2015
613           NORTHERN FANTAIL         Rhipidura rufiventris

Australia        (456)

16.5-18.5 cm. Found on margins of rainforests, vine scrub, monsoon forest; paperbarks, riverside vegetation, mangroves, open eucalypt forest/woodland. range: from Broome (WA) to c. Proserpine-Eungella NP (Q). Inland to c. Larrimah (NT), Riversleigh (Q). Local nomad. Also Soloman Is, Bismarch Arch., PNG, e. Indonesia.