The species is closely related to the Rufous Fantail (Rhipidura rufifrons) but it is darker and duller in appearance with a different song and feeding behaviour.
Streaked Fantail | Samoan Fantail | Brown Fantail | Rufous Fantail | fantail | Windmill fantail | Pohnpei Fantail | Grey Fantail | Fantail (goldfish) | ''fantail'' | Arafura Fantail ''(Rhipidura dryas)'' | Arafura Fantail |
A fantail is a small windmill which is used to keep a windmill facing into the wind automatically.
It is closely related to the Streaked Fantail of the rest of Fiji, and forms a superspecies with the numerous island species of fantail ranging from the Solomon Islands (the Brown Fantail) to Samoa (the Samoan Fantail).
Apparently randomly, Mayuzumi selected 52–72 men (accounts vary), and ordered them shot on the fantail after they refused the honor of death by sword, and pitched the bodies into the Indian Ocean.
Kereru, tui (bird) which appears almost black except for a white tuft under its chin, fantail, Grey Warbler, Red-billed Gull, Southern Black-backed Gull (see Kelp Gull), South Island Pied Oystercatcher and the closely related Variable Oystercatcher (Haematopus unicolor), Pied Shag, Kingfisher, and White-faced Heron.
The pearlscale or chinshurin in Japanese, is a spherical-bodied fancy goldfish with finnage similar to the fantail.
French naturalist Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire originally described the round fantail stingray in 1817 as Trygon grabatus, from the Latin grabatus meaning "bed".
Whilst it is similar in size and shape to Grey Fantails (Rhipidura albiscapa), it has a slightly larger fantail and creates higher pitched and softer songs.
There are over 85 species of Birds in Yarran Dheran including; Australian Magpies, Grey Fantail, the Noisy Miner, the Eastern Yellow Robin and the Eastern Silvereyes.