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.

Species Categories

Accentors Albatrosses Alcippe Fulvettas Asian Barbets Auks Austral Storm Petrels Babblers, Scimitar Babblers Barn Owls Bearded Reedling Bee-eaters Bulbuls Buntings Bushtits Bustards Buttonquail Caracaras, Falcons Cettia Bush Warblers & Allies Chats, Old World Flycatchers Cisticolas & Allies Cormorants, Shags Coursers, Pratincoles Cranes Crows, Jays Cuckoos Cuckooshrikes Cupwings Dippers Drongos Ducks, Geese, Swans Elachura Fairy Flycatchers Fairy-bluebirds Fantails Figbirds, Orioles, Turnagra Finches, Euphonias Flamingos Flowerpeckers Frigatebirds Frogmouths Gannets, Boobies Goldcrests, Kinglets Grassbirds & Allies Grebes Ground Babblers Gulls, Terns, Skimmers Herons, Bitterns Honeyguides Hoopoes Hornbills Ibisbill Ibises, Spoonbills Indigobirds, Whydahs Ioras Jacanas Kingfishers Kites, Hawks, Eagles Larks Laughingthrushes & Allies Leaf Warblers & Allies Leafbirds Longspurs, Snow Buntings Loons Monarchs New World Sparrows New World Warblers Nightjars Northern Storm Petrels Nuthatches Old World Parrots Old World Sparrows, Snowfinches Ospreys Owls Oystercatchers Painted-snipes Parrotbills & Allies Pelicans Penduline Tits Petrels, Shearwaters, Diving Petrels Pheasants & Allies Pigeons, Doves Pittas Plovers Przevalski's Finch Rails, Crakes & Coots Reed Warblers & Allies Rollers Sandgrouse Sandpipers, Snipes Shrikes Skuas Starlings, Rhabdornis Stilts, Avocets Stone-curlews, Thick-knees Storks Sunbirds Swallows, Martins Swifts Sylviid Babblers Tanagers & Allies Thrushes Tits, Chickadees Treecreepers Treeswifts Trogons Tropicbirds Typical Broadbills Vangas & Allies Vireos, Greenlets, Shrike-babblers Wagtails, Pipits Wallcreeper Waxbills, Munias & Allies Waxwings Weavers, Widowbirds White-eyes Woodpeckers Woodswallows, Butcherbirds & Allies Wrens

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