{{Short description|Species of bird}} {{Speciesbox | image = Spotted forktail in Pangot Uttarkhand.jpg | image_caption = Spotted forktail in Pangot, Uttarakhand | status = LC | status_system = IUCN3.1 | status_ref = <ref name="iucn status 11 November 2021">{{cite iucn |author=BirdLife International |date=2016 |title=''Enicurus maculatus'' |volume=2016 |article-number=e.T22710141A94236508 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22710141A94236508.en |access-date=11 November 2021}}</ref> | genus = Enicurus | species = maculatus | authority = Vigors, 1831 | synonyms = }}

The '''spotted forktail''' ('''''Enicurus maculatus''''') is a species of bird in the family Muscicapidae. It is found in the Himalayas and the hills of Northeast India, Bangladesh, Myanmar, and southern China including Yunnan.<ref name="iucn status 11 November 2021" /> Birds of this species are 25&nbsp;cm with a long tail. The sexes are alike, having a white forehead and a black crown and nape, a black back spotted white, and a broad white wing bar. The tail is deeply forked, graduated black and white. The white spotted back easily identifies this species from other similar sized forktail. Its call is a shrill, screechy ''KREE'', mostly given in flight; it also makes some shrill, squeaky notes while perched. It breeds mostly at 1200–3600&nbsp;m, and descends to about 600&nbsp;m in winter. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montane forests, where it is found in boulder-strewn torrents, forest streams, and roadside canals.

==Gallery== <gallery> File:7 Abu'l Hasan, Spotted Forktail, Folio from the Shah Jahan Album ca. 1610–15 Metropolitan Museum New-York.jpg|Spotted forktail by Abu al-Hasan (Mughal painter) File:Spotted-Forktail.jpg|In Phoolchoki Forest, Godawari, Lalitpur Nepal. </gallery>

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