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

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 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 (IOC World Bird List Archived 2013-04-15 at the Wayback Machine ), in the revalidated monotypic genus Chelidorhynx. [4]

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 (2016). "Chelidorhynx hypoxanthus". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2016 e.T22706775A94089360. IUCN. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22706775A94089360.en . Retrieved 15 January 2018.
  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. Yellow-bellied Fairy-Fantail (Chelidorhynx hypoxanthus), version 1.0. In Birds of the World (J. del Hoyo, A. Elliott, J. Sargatal, D. A. Christie, and E. de Juana, Editors). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA. Webpage URL: https://doi.org/10.2173/bow.yebfan1.01.
  4. ↑ 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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