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- Title
Incubation behaviour and care of a nestling by a pair of Black Fantails Rhipidura atra.
- Authors
Donaghey, Richard H.
- Abstract
The Black Fantail Rhipidura atra, endemic to the lower montane forests of New Guinea, builds a typical fantail nest. Observations of a nest placed high up in an understorey tree in the Arfak Mountains in Indonesian New Guinea revealed that the male and female of a pair mostly alternated incubation bouts and contributed almost equally to incubation, care of the nestling and nest-defence. Incubation constancy was ~80%. Observations of Black Fantails mobbing potential nest-predators are described.
- Subjects
NEW Guinea (Island); EGG incubation; BABY birds; RHIPIDURA; BIRD behavior
- Publication
Australian Field Ornithology, 2017, Vol 34, p56
- ISSN
1448-0107
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.20938/afo34056058