🎨 Singapore
🐦 Sunda Pied Fantail (Rhipidura javanica)
📏 17–20 cm (including tail)
📍 Singapore Botanical Gardens, Singapore 🇸🇬
🗓 Feb 2026

#BirdsSeenIn2026 #birds #fantails

🐦 Grey Fantail (Rhipidura albiscapa)
📏 16 cm (including tail)
📍 1: Penrith, New South Wales, Australia 🇦🇺
📅 Sep 2024
📍 2: Pote, Bourail, New Caledonia 🇳🇨
📅 Oct 2025

#birds #fantails

Another gray birdie for your cold, gray Monday 😂 Gray Fantail (Rhipidura albiscapa) #BirdingAustralia #fantails

Another tiny, long-tailed bird that seems to be everywhere... Gray Fantail (Rhipidura albiscapa). What surprised me is that these #fantails seem to be indifferent to "pishing" while the fantails in NZ go absolutely crazy for it. #BirdingAustralia

🎨 The Letter ‘F’
🐦 New Caledonian Streaked Fantail (Rhipidura verreauxi)
📏 17–18 cm
📍 Parc de la Rivière Bleue, New Caledonia 🇳🇨
📅 Oct 2025

#birds #fantails #BirdsSeenIn2025

🌏 New Zealand Fantail (Rhipidura fuliginosa) The New Zealand Fantail is a small, energetic bird with a variable grey-brown back, a yellowish-orange underside, and a dark band across its chest below a white throat. Distinctive white "eyebrows" adorn its dark grey face. Found throughout New Zealand in forests, gardens, and scrublands, it is highly active and not shy. It uses its fanned tail to make acrobatic flights while catching insects. Four subspecies are recognised. Conservation status: Least Concern (IUCN 3.1) 📷: Photo by LorryM via Pixabay https://pixabay.com/photos/new-zealand-native-bird-fantail-4835197/ YPSN

🌏 New Zealand Fantail (Rhipidura fuliginosa) #NewZealandBirds #AustralasianBirds | #NewZealandFantail #RhipiduraFuliginosa | #NewZealandFantails #Fantails #FantailFamily #PerchingBirds 📷: Photo by LorryM🦜 #MyBirdcards | #birdsoftheworld #birds

🌏 Malaysian pied fantail (Rhipidura javanica) The Malaysian pied fantail is a small, active bird, about 17-19.5 cm long, with dark grey to black upperparts, a white supercilium and throat, a narrow black breast band, and a whitish belly. Its most distinctive feature is its long, broad tail, which it often fans out. This fantail is widely distributed across Southeast Asia, including Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam, typically in lowland forests, scrub, parks, and agricultural areas, often near water. The Malaysian pied fantail is an insectivorous bird, catching prey on the wing with agile, aerobatic flights, frequently fanning its tail. They often join mixed-species feeding flocks and may follow mammals to catch disturbed insects. Conservation status: Least Concern (IUCN 3.1) 📷: Photo by Erik_Karits via Pixabay https://pixabay.com/photos/oriental-magpie-robin-4831043/ WXTE

🌏 Malaysian pied fantail (Rhipidura javanica) #AsianBirds | #MalaysianPiedFantail #RhipiduraJavanica | #Fantails #FantailFamily #PerchingBirds 📷: Photo by Erik_Karits🦜 #birdsoftheworld #birds

A New Zealand Piwakawaka/Fantail doing a quick pose before talking off to catch some more bugs. #bird #birds #photography #fantails #newzealandbirds

🌏 Willie wagtail (Rhipidura leucophrys) The Willie wagtail (also spelt Willy wagtail) is a small bird native to Australia, New Guinea, and parts of Indonesia. It is characterized by its black and white plumage, long tail that it wags from side to side, and its active and agile behavior. The Willie wagtail is known for its bold and confident nature, often approaching humans and other animals fearlessly. It is a highly adaptable species, found in a variety of habitats, including gardens, parks, and woodlands. The bird feeds primarily on insects, which it catches in mid-air or by foraging on the ground, and its melodious calls are a common sound in its range. GPT-3.5 (Edited) Conservation status: Least Concern (IUCN 3.1) 📷: Photo by pen_ash via Pixabay VYML

🌏 Willie wagtail (Rhipidura leucophrys) #AustralianBirds #NewGuineanBirds #IndonesianBirds #AustralasianBirds #AsianBirds | #WillieWagtail #WillyWagtail | #Fantails #FantailFamily #PerchingBirds 📷: Photo by pen_ash🦜 #birdsoftheworld #birds

I thought #fantails couldn't get more adorable. Until this #leucistic cutie proved me wrong.

#piwakawaka #nzfantail #whitefantail #nzbirds