Yellow-bellied Fairy-fantail Chelidorhynx hypoxantha
(aka Yellow-bellied Fantail Rhipidura hypoxantha)
Yellow-bellied Fantail, Shemgang, Bhutan, April 2008 - click for larger image

Shemgang, Bhutan
April 2008

The Yellow-bellied Fairy-fantail is distributed along the Himalayas from Kashmir to southern China and south to northern Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam.
Yellow-bellied Fantail, Shemgang, Bhutan, April 2008 - click for larger image It is found in forest and secondary growth where it hunts for flying insects.

It is the smallest fantail with upperparts dark grey-olive with a prominent yellow supercilium while below it is bright yellow.
Yellow-bellied Fantail, Shemgang, Bhutan, April 2008 - click for larger image There are recordings on xeno-canto and additional information is available via Avibase.
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