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title: "Witkeelwaaierstaart"
description: "Rhipidura albicollis — Vogels. The white-throated fantail (Rhipidura albicollis) is a small passerine bird."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/nl/animal/white-throated-fantail
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Witkeelwaaierstaart

> Rhipidura albicollis — Vogels. The white-throated fantail (Rhipidura albicollis) is a small passerine bird.

- Scientific name: *Rhipidura albicollis*
- Category: `birds` (Vogels)
- Habitats: `forest` (Bos)
- iNaturalist observations: 1522
- Wikidata: [Q1591229](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1591229)
- iNaturalist taxon: [604526](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/604526)

## Names

- en: White-throated Fantail
- de: Weißkehlfächerschwanz
- es: Abanico gorgiblanco
- fr: Rhipidure à gorge blanche
- nl: Witkeelwaaierstaart
- pl: Wachlarzówka białogardła

## Countries with the most observations

IN (518), MY (313), CN (169), VN (138), BD (51), TH (50), NP (29), BT (17), MM (16), ID (15), PK (8)

## Summary

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.

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

## Photo

![Witkeelwaaierstaart](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/white-throated-fantail/medium.jpg)

Photo: Che Wei Liu · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/199094298

## Machine access

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