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unusual facts about fantail


Pohnpei Fantail

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.


Glossary of mill machinery

A fantail is a small windmill which is used to keep a windmill facing into the wind automatically.

Kadavu Fantail

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).

Naomasa Sakonju

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.

Omana Regional Park

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.

Pearlscale

The pearlscale or chinshurin in Japanese, is a spherical-bodied fancy goldfish with finnage similar to the fantail.

Round fantail stingray

French naturalist Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire originally described the round fantail stingray in 1817 as Trygon grabatus, from the Latin grabatus meaning "bed".

Rufous Fantail

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.

Yarran Dheran

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.


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