Javan Forktail (Enicurus leschenaulti)
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About Javan Forktail (Enicurus leschenaulti)
- Kingdom: Animals
- Phylum: Chordates
- Class: Birds
- Order: Perching Birds
- Family: Old World Flycatchers
The Javan forktail or white-crowned forktail is a species of forktail in the family Muscicapidae. Formally described in 1818, it is endemic to Indonesia. The largest of the forktails, Enicurus leschenaulti, is between 25 and 28 centimetres long. It has a black throat and breast, black mantle, and largely black wings. The rump and lower back are white, and the bird has a prominent white crown, from which it gets its name. As with other forktails, the tail is long, deeply forked, and banded in black and white. A variety of whistling and clicking calls have been described. Slight morphological differences have been observed between subspecies.
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