yellow bellied fantail

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PAKHI DEKHUN PAKHI CHINUN (OBSERVE THE BIRD AND RECOGNIZE)...YELLOW BELLIED FANTAIL...LIQUID PHOTO PAINT ON PHOTO PAPER....[FROM A PHOTOGRAPH OF DOLLY L. BHARADWAJ]...The Yellow-bellied Fantail (Chelidorhynx hypoxantha), also known as the Yellow-bellied Fairy-fantail, is found in the Indian Subcontinent. It is about 8cm in size. It is yellow below and has a black eye-stripe, white wing-bar and broad black tail tipped white. It used to be placed in the family of the fantails (Rhipiduridae), but DNA analysis has shown it to be a close relative of the Fairy Flycatcher and it has therefore been transferred to the Stenostiridae (IOC World Bird List), in the revalidated monotypic genus Chelidorhynx. This species has an extremely large range, and hence does not approach the thresholds for Vulnerable under the range size criterion (Extent of Occurrence <20,000 km2 combined with a declining or fluctuating range size, habitat extent/quality, or population size and a small number of locations or severe fragmentation). The population trend appears to be stable, and hence the species does not approach the thresholds for Vulnerable under the population trend criterion (>30% decline over ten years or three generations). The population size has not been quantified, but it is not believed to approach the thresholds for Vulnerable under the population size criterion (<10,000 mature individuals with a continuing decline estimated to be >10% in ten years or three generations, or with a specified population structure). For these reasons the species is evaluated as Least Concern. The global population size has not been quantified, but the species is described as common throughout most of its range, although uncommon to locally common in South-East Asia (del Hoyo et al. 2006).