Bismarck Fantail - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

The Bismarck Fantail Rhipidura dahli is a fantail

Fantail

Fantails are small insectivorous birds of southern Asia and Australasia belonging to the genus Rhipidura in the family Rhipiduridae...

. The binomial commemorates the German naturalist Friedrich Dahl

Friedrich Dahl

Karl Friedrich Theodor Dahl was a German zoologist, and in particular an arachnologist....

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