White throated fantail

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Beautiful.

Hallo again Pratim - always a great pleasure to see your work here; you always bring an extra touch of character to your bird portraits. And as always I like the touches of colour, so well-judged, in your backgrounds.

Thanks Emma P maam ... Thanks for the appreciation Robert Jones Sir ...

INDIAN FLYCATCHER @ 3 PAKHI DEKHOON PAKHI CHINOON @ 790 [Observe the bird and recognize]… A4…Watercolour …[From the Ref. photograph of Internet]… The white-throated fantail (Rhipidura albicollis) is a small passerine bird. It is found in forest, scrub and cultivation across tropical southern Asia from the Himalayas, India and Bangladesh east to Indonesia. The white-spotted fantail, (R. albogularis) until recently was considered a subspecies. The adult white-throated fantail is about 19 cm long. It has a dark fan-shaped tail, edged in white, and white supercilium and throat. There is otherwise much variation in plumage between races. Most resemble the Himalayan R. a. canescans which is mainly slate grey above and below, with a black eye mask, and a white throat and eyebrow . Local names for the bird in India include – Nasoni sorai in Assamese. The white-throated fantail lays three eggs in a small cup nest in a tree. It is insectivorous, and often fans its tail as it moves through the un