These tiny little birds are named after their long tail that, as the name suggests, is often displayed fanned out. The fantail is common throughout New Zealand and you\u2019ll likely hear a quiet \u2018cheet cheet\u2019 while walking along hiking trails. Although sometimes it feels like a fantail might land on your shoulder or is following you down the track it\u2019s most likely feeding on small insects that you have unknowingly disturbed by walking past. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
These tiny little birds are named after their long tail that, as the name suggests, is often displayed fanned out. The fantail is common throughout New Zealand and you\u2019ll likely hear a quiet \u2018cheet cheet\u2019 while walking along hiking trails. Although sometimes it feels like a fantail might land on your shoulder or is following you down the track it\u2019s most likely feeding on small insects that you have unknowingly disturbed by walking past. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":9732,"template":"","meta":[],"class_list":["post-7261","phort_post","type-phort_post","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","phort_post_category-birdlife","phort_post_category-fantail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/boydnature.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/phort_post\/7261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/boydnature.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/phort_post"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/boydnature.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/phort_post"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boydnature.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/boydnature.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}