White-winged fantail

{{Short description|Species of bird}} {{speciesbox | image = Rhipidura cockerelli - The Birds of New Guinea (cropped).jpg | status = LC | status_system = IUCN3.1 | status_ref = <ref name="iucn status 12 November 2021">{{cite iucn |author=BirdLife International |date=2017 |title=''Rhipidura cockerelli'' |volume=2017 |article-number=e.T103709333A112342825 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-1.RLTS.T103709333A112342825.en |access-date=12 November 2021}}</ref> | genus = Rhipidura | species = cockerelli | authority = (Ramsay, EP, 1879) | synonyms = }}

The '''white-winged fantail''' ('''''Rhipidura cockerelli''''') or '''Cockerell's fantail''', is a species of bird in the family Rhipiduridae. It is found in the Solomon Islands apart from the island of Malaita in the southeast of the archipelago. The white-gorgeted fantail (''Rhipidura coultasi'') was formerly considered as a subspecies.

Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests. It is threatened by habitat loss.

==Taxonomy== The white-winged fantail was formally described in 1879 by the Australian ornithologist Edward Pierson Ramsay based on a specimen that had been collected by James F. Cockerell on Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands. Ramsay coined the binomial name ''Sauloprocta cockerelli''. The specific epithet was chosen to honour the collector.<ref>{{ cite journal | last=Ramsay | first=Edward Pierson | author-link=Edward Pierson Ramsay | date=5 June 1879 | title=Notes on the fauna of the Solomon Islands | journal=Nature | volume=20 | issue=501 | pages=125–126 [125] | doi=10.1038/020125a0 | bibcode=1879Natur..20..125. | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/18670034 }}</ref><ref>{{ cite book | editor1-last=Mayr | editor1-first=Ernst | editor1-link=Ernst Mayr | editor2-last=Cottrell | editor2-first=G. William | year=1986 | title=Check-List of Birds of the World | volume=11 | publisher=Museum of Comparative Zoology | place=Cambridge, Massachusetts | page=541 | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14484242 }}</ref> This species is now placed with the other fantails in the genus ''Rhipidura'' that was introduced in 1827 by the naturalists Nicholas Vigors and Thomas Horsfield.<ref name=ioc>{{cite web| editor1-last=Gill | editor1-first=Frank | editor1-link=Frank Gill (ornithologist) | editor2-last=Donsker | editor2-first=David | editor3-last=Rasmussen | editor3-first=Pamela | editor3-link=Pamela C. Rasmussen | date=December 2023 | title=Orioles, drongos, fantails | work=IOC World Bird List Version 14.1 | url=https://www.worldbirdnames.org/bow/orioles/ | publisher=International Ornithologists' Union | access-date=15 January 2024}}</ref>

Six subspecies are recognised:<ref name=ioc/> * ''R. c. septentrionalis'' Rothschild & Hartert, EJO, 1916 – Buka Island, Bougainville Island and Shortland Islands (northwest Solomon Islands) * ''R. c. interposita'' Rothschild & Hartert, EJO, 1916 – Choiseul Island and Santa Isabel Island (central east Solomon Islands) * ''R. c. lavellae'' Rothschild & Hartert, EJO, 1916 – Vella Lavella and Ranongga (north New Georgia group, central west Solomon Islands) * ''R. c. albina'' Rothschild & Hartert, EJO, 1901 – Kolombangara, Kohinggo, New Georgia, Vangunu, Rendova and Tetepare Islands (central, south New Georgia group, central west Solomon Islands) * ''R. c. floridana'' Mayr, 1931 – Nggela Islands (Florida Islands) (central south Solomon Islands) * ''R. c. cockerelli'' (Ramsay, EP, 1879) – Guadalcanal (central south Solomon Islands) The white-gorgeted fantail (''Rhipidura coultasi'') was formerly treated as a subspecies. It is endemic to the island of Malaita in the southeast Solomon Islands.<ref name=ioc/>

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