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Rhipidura rufifrons (Rufous Fantail; Rufous-fronted Fantail)

Synonyms: Muscicapa rufifrons (homotypic)

Wikipedia Abstract

The rufous fantail (Rhipidura rufifrons) is a small Passerine bird, most commonly known also as the black-breasted rufous-fantail or rufous-fronted fantail, which can be found in Australia, Indonesia, New guinea and the Solomon Islands. In these countries they inhabit rainforests, wet forests, swamp woodlands and mangroves. They are migratory, travelling to south-eastern Australia in the spring to breed, and then north in the autumn. Although their population is thought to be declining, their relatively large range and abundance make them a species of least concern according to the IUCN.
View Wikipedia Record: Rhipidura rufifrons

Infraspecies

Rhipidura rufifrons agilis
Rhipidura rufifrons brunnea
Rhipidura rufifrons commoda
Rhipidura rufifrons granti
Rhipidura rufifrons intermedia
Rhipidura rufifrons kuperi
Rhipidura rufifrons louisiadensis
Rhipidura rufifrons mariae
Rhipidura rufifrons melaenolaema
Rhipidura rufifrons melanolaema (White-fronted Fantail)
Rhipidura rufifrons rufifrons
Rhipidura rufifrons rufofronta
Rhipidura rufifrons russata
Rhipidura rufifrons saipanensis
Rhipidura rufifrons torrida
Rhipidura rufifrons ugiensis
Rhipidura rufifrons uraniae (Guam rufous-fronted fantail)
Rhipidura rufifrons utupuae
Rhipidura rufifrons versicolor

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
2
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
17
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 5.53492
EDGE Score: 1.87716
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  10 grams
Diet [2]  Carnivore (Invertebrates)
Diet - Invertibrates [2]  100 %
Forages - Mid-High [2]  20 %
Forages - Understory [2]  40 %
Forages - Ground [2]  40 %
Clutch Size [4]  2
Incubation [3]  15 days

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
East Melanesian Islands Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu No
Polynesia-Micronesia Fiji, Micronesia, Polynesia, Samoa, Tonga, United States No
Wallacea East Timor, Indonesia No

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
♦ 2Hamish Wilman, Jonathan Belmaker, Jennifer Simpson, Carolina de la Rosa, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, and Walter Jetz. 2014. EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027
♦ 3del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
♦ 4Jetz W, Sekercioglu CH, Böhning-Gaese K (2008) The Worldwide Variation in Avian Clutch Size across Species and Space PLoS Biol 6(12): e303. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0060303
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0