Visayan Fantail
Rhipidura albiventris (Sharpe, 1877)
Rhipiduridae — Fantails
Visayan Fantail, Rhipidura albiventris, is a fantail of the western Philippines, found on Ticao, Masbate, Panay, Guimaras and Negros. It is a bird of tropical moist primary and secondary forest, as well as forest edge, from lowland sites to montane areas up to 1,800 metres above sea level. It can be told from the blue-headed fantail and Tablas fantail by its white belly and overall paler plumage. Breeding has been noted from February to May, with a fairly open cup nest and a clutch of two eggs.
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Rhipiduridae — Fantails
- Breeding range
- Oriental Region: Ticao, Masbate, Panay, Guimaras and Negros (wc Philippines)
