Yellow-bellied fantail

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Yellow-bellied fantail
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Stenostiridae
Genus: Chelidorhynx
Blyth, 1843
Species:
C. hypoxanthus
Binomial name
Chelidorhynx hypoxanthus
(Blyth, 1843)
Synonyms
  • Rhipidura hypoxanthaBlyth, 1843
  • Chelidorhynx hypoxantha

The yellow-bellied fantail (Chelidorhynx hypoxanthus), also known as the yellow-bellied fairy-fantail, is found in the Indian subcontinent, the Himalayas, and portions of Southeast Asia including Thailand, Vietnam, and Myanmar. [2] It is an altitudinal migrant. [3]

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Description

It is about 8 cm (3.1 in) in size. It is yellow below and has a black eye-stripe, white wing-bar and broad black tail tipped white.

Classification

It used to be placed in the family of the fantails (Rhipiduridae), but DNA analysis has shown it to be a close relative of the fairy flycatcher and it has therefore been transferred to the Stenostiridae, [4] in the revalidated monotypic genus Chelidorhynx. [5]

Social Behavior

It often gathers in mixed-species flocks, especially during winter, with leaf-warblers, tits, and black-faced warblers. [3]

Yellow-bellied fantail at Zuluk, Sikkim Yellow-bellied fantail.jpg
Yellow-bellied fantail at Zuluk, Sikkim

References

  1. ↑ BirdLife International. (2024). "Chelidorhynx hypoxanthus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2024 e.T22706775A264228927. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2024-2.RLTS.T22706775A264228927.en . Retrieved 18 December 2025.
  2. ↑ "Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive". doi:10.2173/bow.yebfan1.01. S2CID   216411078 . Retrieved 27 November 2015.
  3. 1 2 Boles, W. (2020). J. del Hoyo; A. Elliott; J. Sargatal; D. A. Christie; E. de Juana (eds.). "Yellow-bellied Fairy-Fantail (Chelidorhynx hypoxanthus)". Birds of the World Online. 1.0. Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY. doi:10.2173/bow.yebfan1.01.
  4. ↑ Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela C., eds. (2013-04-15). "Family Stenostiridae". IOC World Bird List . 15.1.
  5. ↑ Fuchs, J. R. M.; Pasquet, E.; Couloux, A.; Fjeldså, J.; Bowie, R. C. K. (2009). "A new Indo-Malayan member of the Stenostiridae (Aves: Passeriformes) revealed by multilocus sequence data: Biogeographical implications for a morphologically diverse clade of flycatchers". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 53 (2): 384–93. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2009.06.015. PMID   19576994.
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