White-browed Fantail Flycatcher is also known as the 'dancing bird' or 'drunken piper'. The white-browed fantail (Lesson) breeds across tropical regions of the Indian Subcontinent and Southeast Asia. The species ranges from India east to South East Asia. Three eggs are laid in a small cup nest in a tree. In the campus it is generally reported in the bushes of the bamboo and shrubs. However sighting is uncommon.

It is a restless and active bird always engaged in a characteristic performance: It keeps on opening and closing its wings, spreading the tail and flicking it up and down or moving it from side to side. After a while it may flip to a nearby branch or even descend to the ground to start the performance again. These antics have earned it the English name Drunken Piper.

It can make various fast aerial manouvres to catch prey. Food consists of small flying insects. It makes a short selly in pursuit of an insect and eats it after coming back to a perch, most often to the same perch. This species is often seen in the company of cattle and buffalloes. This association supplies it with an abundant source of food. Some of them are insects aroused by the animals when working but mostly those attracted to the animals and their dung.

The white-browed Fantail Flycatcher is about 18 cm (7 inches) long, or a little larger then a house sparrow. But, it looks smaller, due to the slender build. The upper parts are a dark, dull, blackish-brown or a dark-grey brown in colour. The two broad white eyebrows (superciliums) join in the forehead to form a white head band. Wing coverts have two rows of small white spots. The central pair of tail feathers are blackish-brown. The other tail feathers, correspondingly shorter to form the fan-shape, have white endings. The throat is blackish with white sides. The breast and belly are white. The beak and feet are black and the dark brown eyes look black from a distance. The females are browner than males.

It is often seen pairs, but could be found singly or in small groups. A peaceful and sociable bird, the white-browed Fantail Flycatcher associates with many small birds such as grey tits, common babblers, orange and little minivets. The flight is slow and direct. But, it does not fly at a stretch.

The call is a piping whistle, uttered always as a series of continuous notes. When alarmed, it makes a harsh scolding "chrrr" call.