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title: "Spot-breasted Fantail"
description: "Rhipidura albogularis — Birds. The white-spotted fantail or spot-breasted fantail (Rhipidura albogularis) is a small passerine bird."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/animal/spot-breasted-fantail
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Spot-breasted Fantail

> Rhipidura albogularis — Birds. The white-spotted fantail or spot-breasted fantail (Rhipidura albogularis) is a small passerine bird.

- Scientific name: *Rhipidura albogularis*
- Category: `birds` (Birds)
- Habitats: `forest` (Forest)
- iNaturalist observations: 1511
- Wikidata: [Q3429500](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3429500)
- iNaturalist taxon: [144736](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/144736)

## Names

- en: Spot-breasted Fantail
- de: Fleckenbrustfächerschwanz
- es: Abanico pechipinto
- fr: Rhipidure à poitrine tachetée
- nl: Witvlekwaaierstaart
- pl: Wachlarzówka obrożna

## Countries with the most observations

IN (1260)

## Summary

The white-spotted fantail or spot-breasted fantail (Rhipidura albogularis) is a small passerine bird. It is found in forest, scrub and cultivation in southern and central India. It was formerly considered a subspecies of the white-throated fantail.

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White-spotted_fantail

## Photo

![Spot-breasted Fantail](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/spot-breasted-fantail/medium.jpg)

Photo: Vijay Barve · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/112366841

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/spot-breasted-fantail?lang=en` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).