Description Arafura Fantail - Fogg Dam - Darwin
Date 16 August 2015, 10:08
Source Arafura Fantail - Fogg Dam - Darwin _S4E4936 https://www.flickr.com/photos/francesco_veronesi/22360530746/
Author Francesco Veronesi from Italy https://www.flickr.com/people/30818542@N04
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Arafura_Fantail_-_Fogg_Dam_-_Darwin_S4E4936_(22360530746).jpg

The Arafura fantail (Rhipidura dryas), sometimes known as the wood fantail, inhabits the Lesser Sunda Islands, the northern coast of Australia from the Kimberley to the western side of the Cape York Peninsula, including subcoastally in the Top End of the Northern Territory, and southern New Guinea. It is similar to the rufous fantail, from which it has been split taxonomically but, apart from minor overlap in the eastern Moluccas, their geographic ranges are discrete. It is generally duller than the rufous fantail with the rufous colouration more restricted. Order: Passeriformes, Family: Rhipiduridae, Genus: Rhipidura, Species: Rhipidura dryas Gould, 1843.