Rhipidura albiscapa

1 Grey Fantail at Undefined, ACT

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Identification history

	Rhipidura albiscapa	21 Jan 2019	natureguy
	Rhipidura albiscapa	20 Jan 2019	JonSteinbeck

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I saw some Grey Fantails flying in their excited, circular way between a tall tree, short trees and shrubs. I think I saw four birds in the end, although I am unsure how many were adults as the only birds I was able to photograph were juveniles. I noticed a fantail land in a shrub about a metre or two away on my left. This bird appeared to be a young juvenile, possibly on the verge of fledging. This bird still had downy feathers and leapt away from branch to branch rather than flying purposely off. The other bird I photographed was a juvenile with no downy feathers on it. The bird was flying all over the place. Just after I took its photograph it flew directly at me before banking to its left just before my face, just like another similarly coloured juvenile did at Jerrabomberra Wetlands in December.

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Location information

Coordinates 149.102783 -35.326578
Altitude 650.3m
Maps Red Hill Nature Reserve
Places Undefined, ACT

Sighting information

4 Abundance
19 Jan 2019 08:38 AM Recorded on
JonSteinbeck Recorded by
Collections
BIrdsinCanberra Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr Intermediate size Other Birds Birds

Species information

Rhipidura albiscapa Scientific name
Grey Fantail Common name
Not Sensitive
Local native
Non-invasive or negligible
Up to 1349.7m Recorded at altitude
778 images trained Machine learning
Synonyms
Rhipidura fuliginosa Rhipidura (Rhipidura) fuliginosa Rhipidura (Rhipidura) albiscapa Rhipidura albiscapa albiscapa

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