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Fantail Mullet: Mugil gyrans
Appearance:
Color olive green with blue tints on back, shading to silvery sides, white below
Anal and pelvic fins yellowish
Dark blotch at base of pectoral fin
Inverted V-shaped mouth ...

 


Pied Fantail Rhipidura javanica
Described by: Sparrman (1788)
Alternate common name(s): Malaysian Fantail, Black-and-white Fantail
Old scientific name(s): None known by website authors ...

The Rufous Fantail (Rhipidura rufifrons) finds its home in the South Pacific, including Australia, New Guinea, the Solomon Islands and eastern Indonesia.

White-throated Fantail - Rhipidura albicollis - Corvidae - Birds of India
Binoculars
Spotting scopes
Bird Diagram
Birding Sites ...

Fantail, Grey Rhipidura albiscapa Found: Australia
Photographed by Chris Jewiss
Wagtail, Willy Rhipidura leucophrys Found: Australia
Photographed by: 1, 2) MarkRHiggins 3, 4, 5) Dick Daniels near Melbourne ...

We saw a Grey Fantail of the race Keasti which is darker and may be split as the Mountain Fantail. A very active pair of Fernwrens were seen with nesting materials.

Fantail Snipe, Snipe, Eurasian Snipe, European Snipe, Palearctic Common Snipe
Bird Family :
Scolopacinae - Woodcocks & snipes ...

The Rufous Fantail is widely distributed throughout the southern Pacific from the Mariana Islands and Yap south to Australia.
The Guam subspecies, Rhipidura rufifrons uraniae, was last seen in 1984.
What can be done?

Song of the fantail
Rhipidura fulginosa
The willows are budding which means, as every farmer knows, that the grass is growing. Spring is finally here and I have noticed that with the warmer mornings Piwakawaka, the fantail, is getting up early again.

Blue-spotted Fantail Ray, Taeniura lymma - Australian Museum
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Rhipiduridae - fantails
Lord Howe Fantail, Rhipidura fuliginosa cervina (Lord Howe Island, Southwest Pacific, c. 1925)- New Zealand Fantail subspecies ...

A Blotched Fantail Ray at Julian Rocks
A Blotched Hawkfish at Port Hacking
A Blotched Hawkfish at Port Stephens
A Blotched Sand Goby at North Solitary Island
A Blue Angelfish at Espiritu Santo
A Blue Angelfish at North-West Island ...

Fantail darter (Etheostoma flabellare)
Firebelly darter (Etheostoma pyrrhogaster)
Fountain darter (Etheostoma fonticola)
Fringed darter (Etheostoma crossopterum)
Glassy darter (Etheostoma vitreum)
Golden darter (Etheostoma denoncourti) ...

Indian Fantails ... Indian Fantasy ... Indian Mondaines ... Iranian Highflying Tumblers ... Island Imperial-Pigeon ... Jacobin ... Jassy Tumblers ... Kazaner Tumblers ... Kazan Trjasun ... Kererū or New Zealand Pigeon ... Kiev Tumblers ...

Goldfish: Common Goldfish, Carp (Cyprinus carpio), Comet Goldfish, Bristol Shubunkin, Fantail, Veiltail, Telescope Moor, Black Moor, Oranda, Lionhead, Celestial
Sponges: Orange Puffball Sponge, Giant Barrel Sponge, Lavender Vase Sponge ...

dippers, wrens, mockingbirds, accentors, thrushes, babblers, logrunners, parrotbills, rockfowl, gnatcatchers, Old World warblers, Old World flycatchers, wattle-eyes & batises, fairy-wrens, Australian warblers, monarch flycatchers & fantails, ...

The islands had a number of birds themselves, not as many as the larger or closer islands like Little Barrier Island, but we were able to see Kereru/New Zealand Pigeon, Tui, and New Zealand Fantails.

Domesticated varieties developed by selective breeding include the fantail, with numerous erectile tail feathers; the Jacobin, with a hoodlike ruff; the tumbler, which turns backward somersaults in flight; the pouter, with an enormous crop; ...

See also: Flycatcher, Monarch, Shrike, Drongo, Perch