The Rufous Fantail (Rhipidura rufifrons) are a migratory species that travel to south-eastern Australia in the spring to breed and then north in the autumn.
They are also known as the Rufous-fronted Fantail or the Black-breasted rufous-Fantail. They are distinguished by their orange-brown back, rump and base of tail. They have a black and white breast feathers that merges into black then white up the throat to the chin.
Rufous Fantail (Rhipidura rufifrons) 
Rufous Fantail (Rhipidura rufifrons)
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- Scientific classification
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Chordata
- Class: Aves
- Order: Passeriformes
- Family: Rhipiduridae
- Genus: Rhipidura
- Species: R. rufifrons
- Binomial name: Rhipidura rufifron