Rufous-backed Fantail

Taxonomy

Order

Passeriformes

Family

Rhipiduridae

Genus

Rhipidura

eBird Code

rubfan1

Subspecies (3)

• Rhipidura rufidorsa kubuna

  eastern New Guinea (south slope of the southeastern peninsula)

• Rhipidura rufidorsa kumusi

  eastern New Guinea (north slope of the southeastern peninsula, but probably occurring west to Astrolabe Bay)

• Rhipidura rufidorsa rufidorsa

  New Guinea, eastward in the north to Astrolabe Bay, and eastward in the south at least to the Fly River; also Misool (Raja Ampat Islands, off western New Guinea), and Yapen (Cenderawasih Bay, off northwestern New Guinea)