Fantails

The family Rhipiduridae consists of small, insect-eating birds found across Australasia, Southeast Asia, and the Indian subcontinent, and is known for species such as the fantails and silktails. This family is divided into four genera within two subfamilies: Rhipidurinae, which includes Rhipidura or the typical fantails boasting 51 species; and Lamproliinae, which features the genera Chaetorhynchus with the drongo fantail, Eutrichomyias known as the cerulean flycatcher, and Lamprolia which comprises two species of silktails.

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Accentors Albatrosses Anhingas, Darters Auks Austral Storm Petrels Australasian Robins Australasian Warblers Barn Owls Bee-eaters Bulbuls Buntings Buttonquail Caracaras, Falcons Cardinals & Allies Cettia Bush Warblers & Allies Chats, Old World Flycatchers Cockatoos Cormorants, Shags Coursers, Pratincoles Crows, Jays Cuckoos Cuckooshrikes Drongos Ducks, Geese, Swans Fantails Finches, Euphonias Flowerpeckers Frigatebirds Frogmouths Gannets, Boobies Grassbirds & Allies Grebes Guineafowl Gulls, Terns, Skimmers Herons, Bitterns Honeyeaters Hoopoes Hornbills Ibises, Spoonbills Jacanas Kagu Kingfishers Kites, Hawks, Eagles Kiwis Larks Laughingthrushes & Allies Leaf Warblers & Allies Longspurs, Snow Buntings Loons Megapodes Mockingbirds, Thrashers Monarchs New World Quail New World Sparrows New World Warblers New Zealand Parrots New Zealand Wattlebirds New Zealand Wrens Nightjars Northern Storm Petrels Old World Parrots Old World Sparrows, Snowfinches Oropendolas, Orioles, Blackbirds Ospreys Owlet-nightjars Owls Oystercatchers Painted-snipes Pelicans Penguins Petrels, Shearwaters, Diving Petrels Pheasants & Allies Pigeons, Doves Pittas Plovers Rails, Crakes & Coots Reed Warblers & Allies Rollers Sandgrouse Sandpipers, Snipes Shrikes Skuas Starlings, Rhabdornis Stilts, Avocets Stitchbird Stone-curlews, Thick-knees Sunbirds Swallows, Martins Swifts Tanagers & Allies Thrushes Treeswifts Tropicbirds Tyrant Flycatchers, Calyptura Vireos, Greenlets, Shrike-babblers Wagtails, Pipits Waxbills, Munias & Allies Whistlers & Allies White-eyes Whiteheads Woodswallows, Butcherbirds & Allies

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