Mussau Fantail
Photo: Journal für Ornithologie 50, 1902 plate 9, figure 2. · Public domain

Fantails and Silktails

Mussau Fantail

Rhipidura matthiae

NTNear Threatened Endemic to Papua New Guinea
Family
Fantails and Silktails (Rhipiduridae)
Order
Passeriformes

Overview

The Mussau fantail (Rhipidura matthiae) or Matthias fantail, is a fantail which is endemic to Mussau Island in the St. Matthias Islands of Papua New Guinea.

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Range and habitat

Mussau, in St. Matthias Group (north-central Bismarck Archipelago).

Range description: AviList Global Avian Checklist.

Continents

Sources and further reading

Last updated September 29, 2026.