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Fantails
Grey Fantail (Rhipidura fuliginosa) fanning its tail
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Aves Order: Passeriformes Family: Dicruridae Subfamily: Rhipidurinae Genus: Rhipidura Horsfield and Vigors, 1827
Species
Over 40, see text

Fantails are small insectivorous birds of southern Asia and Australasia belonging to the genus Rhipidura in the monotypic subfamily Rhipidurinae. Most of the species are about 15 to 18 cm long, specialist aerial feeders, and named as "fantails", but the Australian Willie Wagtail, is a little larger, and though still an expert hunter of insects on the wing, concentrates equally on terrestrial prey.

The true wagtails are part of the genus Motacilla in the family Motacillidae and are not particularly close relatives of the fantails.

Based on del Hoyo et al (2006)

• Yellow-bellied Fantail, Rhipidura(Chelidorhynx) hypoxantha
• Blue Fantail, Rhipidura superciliaris
• Blue-headed Fantail, Rhipidura cyaniceps
• Chestnut-bellied Fantail, Rhipidura hyperythra
• Friendly Fantail, Rhipidura albolimbata
• Grey Fantail, Rhipidura albiscapa
• Grey Fantail, Rhipidura fuliginosa
  • Lord Howe Fantail, Rhipidura fuliginosa cervina - extinct (c.1925)
• Mangrove Fantail, Rhipidura phasiana
• Brown Fantail, Rhipidura drownei
• Dusky Fantail, Rhipidura tenebrosa
• Rennell Fantail, Rhipidura rennelliana
• Streaked Fantail, Rhipidura spilodera or Rhipidura verreauxi
• Kadavu Fantail, Rhipidura personata
• Samoan Fantail, Rhipidura nebulosa
• Rusty-bellied Fantail or Rusty-flanked Fantail, Rhipidura teysmanni
• Tawny-backed Fantail or Cinnamon-backed Fantail, Rhipidura superflua
• Streaky-breasted Fantail, Rhipidura dedemi
• Long-tailed Fantail, Rhipidura opistherythra
• Palau Fantail, Rhipidura lepida
• Rufous-backed Fantail, Rhipidura rufidorsa
• Bismarck Fantail, Rhipidura dahli
• Matthias Fantail, Rhipidura matthiae
• Malaita Fantail, Rhipidura malaitae
• Arafura Fantail, Rhipidura dryas
• Pohnpei Fantail, Rhipidura kubaryi
• Rufous Fantail, Rhipidura rufifrons
  • Guam Rufous Fantail, Rhipidura rufifrons uraniae - extinct (1984)
• Manus Fantail, Rhipidura semirubra
• Dimorphic Fantail, Rhipidura brachyrhyncha
• Black Fantail, Rhipidura atra
• Black-and-cinnamon Fantail, Rhipidura nigrocinnamomea
• Rufous-tailed Fantail, Rhipidura phoenicura
• White-bellied Fantail, Rhipidura euryura

Willie Wagtail
Rhipidura leucophrys

• Spotted Fantail, Rhipidura perlata
• White-browed Fantail, Rhipidura aureola
• Pied Fantail, Rhipidura javanica
• Spot-breasted Fantail, Rhipidura albogularis
• White-throated Fantail, Rhipidura albicollis
• Brown-capped Fantail, Rhipidura diluta
• Cinnamon-tailed Fantail, Rhipidura fuscorufa
• Northern Fantail, Rhipidura rufiventris
• Cockerell's Fantail or White-winged Fantail, Rhipidura cockerelli
• Sooty Thicket-fantail, Rhipidura threnothorax
• White-bellied Thicket-fantail, Rhipidura leucothorax
• Black Thicket-fantail, Rhipidura maculipectus
• Willie Wagtail, Rhipidura leucophrys

• Del Hoyo, J.; Elliot, A. & Christie D. (editors). (2006). Handbook of the Birds of the World. Volume 11: Old World Flycatchers to Old World Warblers. Lynx Edicions. ISBN 849655306X.

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