Guadalcanal fantail

The Guadalcanal fantail (Rhipidura ocularis) is a species of bird in the family Rhipiduridae.

Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.

The Guadalcanal fantail was formally described in 1931 by the American ornithologist Ernst Mayr based on specimens collected on the island of Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands.

Mayr considered the taxon as a subspecies of the brown fantail (now the Bougainville fantail) and coined the trinomial name Rhipidura drownei ocularis.

[4] The Guadalcanal fantail is now considered to be separate species.