Yellow-bellied fantail
| Yellow-bellied fantail | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Stenostiridae |
| Genus: | Chelidorhynx Blyth, 1843 |
| Species: | C. hypoxanthus
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| Binomial name | |
| Chelidorhynx hypoxanthus (Blyth, 1843)
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The yellow-bellied fantail (Chelidorhynx hypoxanthus), also known as the yellow-bellied fairy-fantail, is found in the Indian subcontinent, the Himalayas, and portions of Southeast Asia including Thailand, Vietnam, and Myanmar.[2] It is an altitudinal migrant.[3]
Description
It is about 8 cm (3.1 in) in size. It is yellow below and has a black eye-stripe, white wing-bar and broad black tail tipped white.
Classification
It used to be placed in the family of the fantails (Rhipiduridae), but DNA analysis has shown it to be a close relative of the fairy flycatcher and it has therefore been transferred to the Stenostiridae,[4] in the revalidated monotypic genus Chelidorhynx.[5]
Social Behavior
It often gathers in mixed-species flocks, especially during winter, with leaf-warblers, tits, and black-faced warblers.[3]
References
- ^ BirdLife International. (2024). "Chelidorhynx hypoxanthus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2024 e.T22706775A264228927. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2024-2.RLTS.T22706775A264228927.en. Retrieved 18 December 2025.
- ^ "Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive". doi:10.2173/bow.yebfan1.01. S2CID 216411078. Retrieved 27 November 2015.
- ^ a b Boles, W. (2020). J. del Hoyo; A. Elliott; J. Sargatal; D. A. Christie; E. de Juana (eds.). "Yellow-bellied Fairy-Fantail (Chelidorhynx hypoxanthus)". Birds of the World Online. 1.0. Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY. doi:10.2173/bow.yebfan1.01.
- ^ Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela C., eds. (2013-04-15). "Family Stenostiridae". IOC World Bird List. 15.1.
- ^ Fuchs, J. R. M.; Pasquet, E.; Couloux, A.; Fjeldså, J.; Bowie, R. C. K. (2009). "A new Indo-Malayan member of the Stenostiridae (Aves: Passeriformes) revealed by multilocus sequence data: Biogeographical implications for a morphologically diverse clade of flycatchers". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 53 (2): 384–93. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2009.06.015. PMID 19576994.