Gray Fantail
Rhipidura albiscapa
(L 6.3")
Laminington Nat’l Park
20Oct2016
Common in Australia, New
Guinea, the Solomon Islands,
Vanuatu and New Caledonia.
Little Desert Nature Lodge
30Oct2016
Flittering, fluttering, flying
Showing off his fancy tail,
Branches brown, creamy white
And night-black I see.
I pick up my camera
To take a picture,
He spazdicly shoots up a tree.
(Pippa aged 11)
Rhipidura is Greek for fan
tail;
albiscapa is Latin for
white stem.
© Marc
Anderson
xeno-canto
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