Rhipidura rufifrons
3 Australian Rufous Fantail at Bandiana, VIC
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| Rhipidura rufifrons | Liam.m | 26 Mar 2022 | |
| Rhipidura rufifrons | KylieWaldon | 25 Mar 2022 |
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Significant sighting
User's notes
Is it even possible? I could have sworn that this bird I saw this morning was a rufous fantail. Didn't think they ever came into our area? And of course, I had the short lens on the camera at that moment. It was in a pocket of wattle shrubbery with lots of other small birds frolicking when it just darted out - did a bit of a fan dance and went back into cover! I don't even believe it - and I saw it!
6 comments
25 Mar 2022
Good chance it is, they migrate through here occasionally, and there was a reliable sighting of one at the back end of Thurgoona on the 18th March
25 Mar 2022
Thank you Darcy. I think it was one in a million that I saw it. It was the way back - didn't see it on the way past the first time.
27 Mar 2022
Oh ps. The other rufous coloured things in shot are bunches of wattle seeds dried off.
Location information
- Coordinates 146.954727-36.130337
- Places Bandiana, VIC
Sighting information
- 1 Abundance
- 25 Mar 2022 09:08 AM Recorded on
- KylieWaldon Recorded by
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- Significant KylieWaldon Albury, Wodonga NatureMapr Rhipidura rufifrons Intermediate size Other Birds Birds
Species information
- Rhipidura rufifrons Scientific name
- Australian Rufous Fantail Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 1043.69m Recorded at altitude
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