Tablas Fantail (Rhipidura sauli)
About the Tablas Fantail
The Tablas fantail (Rhipidura sauli) is a fantail endemic to the Philippines on Tablas Island. Until recently, it was considered conspecific with the blue-headed fantail and Visayan fantail. It is threatened by habitat loss. It was formerly deemed conspecific with the blue-headed and Visayan fantails but it is differentiated from them by its darker brown belly, longer wings, lower pitched calls, and a stronger rufous wingpanel connecting to its back. This species is monotypic and it has no subspecies. The diet of the Tablas fantail consists of insects. It is often observed in mixed flocks with other birds such as rufous paradise flycatcher, black-naped monarch, white-vented whistler and other small forest birds.
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We only publish recordings we may use commercially, because this site is supported by ads. xeno-canto lists 4 recordings for this species: 4 CC BY-NC-SA. None of them permits commercial use, so there is no player here — the page is kept as a profile so the bird is not missing from the guide.
As soon as someone uploads a freely licensed recording, we mirror it and the player appears here.
Listed as recorded in Philippines in the xeno-canto catalogue.
Related species you can hear
- Malaysian Pied FantailRhipidura javanicarecording
- Philippine Pied FantailRhipidura nigritorquisrecording
- White-browed FantailRhipidura aureolarecording
- Willie WagtailRhipidura leucophrysrecording
This species has no recording here yet — these relatives do, so you can hear what the family sounds like.