White-browed Fantail

Fantail with a broad white eyebrow, dark upperparts, and white underparts. Crown and ear-coverts black, contrasting with white eyebrows. Throat mottled black-and-white. Pair of wingbars formed by well-separated white teardrop-shaped spots. Female slightly paler with a browner head. Immature like adult, but has rufous tips to dark feathers of upperparts. Frequent song is a 4- to 7-note melodious whistling phrase that ascends and then sometimes descends or is left incomplete. Contact call is a harsh “switch-wich.” Inhabits dry, open wooded habitats, ranging from dry deciduous forest to scrubby agricultural edges.

The white-browed fantail (Rhipidura aureola) inhabits a variety of habitats in Sri Lanka, including forests, woodlands, and agricultural areas

The white-browed fantail (Rhipidura aureola) in Sri Lanka eats small flying insects like flies and bugs. It also eats ants, beetles, and other small arthropods.