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Grey Fantail

Rhipidura albiscapa · Family Rhipiduridae

Rhipidura albiscapa

Family Rhipiduridae

Order
Passeriformes
Family
Rhipiduridae
GBIF occurrence records
1,346,385
Countries and territories with records
7
Grey Fantail
JJ Harrison (https://www.jjharrison.com.au/) · Rhipidura fuliginosa 3.jpg · CC BY-SA 3.0 · JJ Harrison (https://www.jjharrison.com.au/) · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Recordings may be trimmed and re-encoded; photos are cropped and resized.

About this species

This species has 1,346,385 occurrence records from 7 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Australia accounts for 99.6% of the records; no other country or territory reaches 1%. In Australia, this species accounts for 1.2% of all bird records in GBIF.

The scientific name Rhipidura albiscapa combines the genus name Rhipidura with the species epithet albiscapa. The Warbla app catalog lists 48 species of the genus Rhipidura; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Rhipidura leucophrys, Rhipidura fuliginosa and Rhipidura rufifrons.

The catalog has GBIF record counts for 50 species of the family Rhipiduridae. This species ranks 2nd among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Rhipidura leucophrys. Its record count is 16.1 times the family average (83,685). The family Rhipiduridae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.

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