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White-bellied Thicket Fantail
Rhipidura leucothorax Salvadori, 1874
Rhipiduridae — Fantails
White-bellied Thicket Fantail, Rhipidura leucothorax, is a bird of New Guinea in the fantail family, breeding in Australasia. It was described by Salvadori in 1874. It lives in moist lowland forest and mangrove forest, and also uses shrubs, thickets beside watercourses, light forest, forest swamps and garden areas. It is a secretive bird of forest thickets on plains and hills, recorded up to 1350 m. It has a white belly and white markings on the chest, wings, neck and tail, with a short white line above the eye. The tail is often raised and spread.
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Rhipiduridae — Fantails
- Breeding range
- Australasia: New Guinea
