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November 2023: Greater Racket Tailed Drongos are territorial and aggressive. As you can see here with two of them battling for perching rights - Thattekkad, India 🇮🇳
Photo of this Spangled Drongo shows it's fish like tail. In north Queensland, these birds feed on rotting fermented fruit and get intoxicated, They fall out of the trees onto the ground and roll around squawking and flapping their wings unable to fly. So it is an Australian colloquialism to call someone acting a fool a "stupid Drongo". Photo taken in a Red Flowering Gum tree growing in my garden from my back steps.
Kruger National Park
A red-eyed all-black upright bird with a narrow tail that splays out into a fork. Pairs and singles occasionally join mixed-species flocks in a variety of wooded and open country, although they avoid forest. The species sits in the canopy and midstory, hawking insects from a perch, and it sometimes associates with large mammals, eating prey that they flush. It is loud and noisy, singing a variety of unmelodic, noisy, and mechanical notes, sometimes including imitations of other bird species.
Name: Ashy drongo
Scientific: Dicrurus leucophaeus
Malay: Cecawi Abu / Cecawi Kelabu / Cecawi Rantau
Family: Dicruridae
IUCN Red List (v3.1, 2016): Least concern
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I saw what i think was a family group of these birds who were carrying on a bit, the cloudy sky didn't help with taking a photo of this one but atleast i was able to get close.
This photo makes it quite easy to ID the drongo showing both the forked tail and the red eye that is indicative of the species.
Site #66
Kudu Private Nature Reserve
Lydenburg
Mpumalanga
South Africa
202) Ashy Drongo
Ashy Drongo, Dicrurus leucophaeus, Cecawi Kelabu
It is found widely distributed across South and Southeast Asia with several populations that vary in the shade of grey, migration patterns and in the size or presence of a white patch around the eye. The ashy drongo has short legs and sits very upright while perched prominently, often high on a tree. It is insectivorous and forages by making aerial sallies but sometimes gleans from tree trunks. They are found singly, in pairs or small groups. They can imitate the calls of other birds and are capable of imitating the whistling notes of a common iora.
Cecawi ini biasanya bertenggek tinggi diatas pokok dan membuat bunyi dengan meniru bunyi burung lain seperti Iora. Ia biasanya dillihat sepasang atau dalam kumpulan. Ia memburu serangga dengan menyambar atau memburunya di dahan dahan pokok.
Exif: f7.1, 1/400, ISO 800, focal length 800mm, Cik Canon EOS 50D, lens Canon 400mm, TC 2.0, Tripod MyVi
The crimson eyes and lack of a white spot at the base of the beaks distinguish ashy drongo from black drongo.
This is a male bird.
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The black drongo is a small Asian passerine bird of the drongo family Dicruridae. It is a common resident breeder in much of tropical southern Asia from southwest Iran through India and Sri Lanka east to southern China and Indonesia
Scientific name: Dicrurus macrocercus
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Phylum: Chordata
Higher classification: Dicrurus
November 2023: This Greater Racket-Tailed Drongo took offense at this Black-rumped Flameback Woodpecker, and decided to act to get it to go! - Thattekkadu, Kerala, India 🇮🇳
The fork-tailed drongo is a common and widespread resident breeder in Africa south of the Sahara. These insect-eating birds are usually found in open forests or bush, and are tolerant of arid climates.
Very similar to the Ashy Drongo. The white rictal spot, as seen here, is diagnostic. Also the iris is a darker shade of red as compared to the Ashy. It is a common resident breeder in much of tropical southern Asia. It feeds on insects, and is commonly found in open country and light forest throughout its range, perching conspicuously on a bare perch.
學名: Dicrurus hottentottus
英名: Hair-Crested Drongo
Family: Dicruridae(卷尾科), Length: 32cm.
俗名黑鐵練甲、山黎雞、大魚尾燕。分布於俄羅斯、印度、尼泊爾、錫金、不丹、孟加拉國、中南半島、馬來群島、伊里安島、南抵索羅門群島、南達澳大利亞以及中國大陸的河北、北京、山西、陝西、甘肅、寧夏、河南、西南抵四川、長江流域以南各省、南至雲南、西藏等地，多棲息於樹林。和台灣大卷尾之不同，除頭不明顯外，其尾部末端兩側往上卷翹的羽身。髮冠卷尾是相當特別的卷尾，牠的尾部有如戰鬥機一般垂直的尾翼，身上很明顯的有兩種色調。牠的頭部前端會長出兩條長長的飾羽十分美麗，同時這也是牠名稱的由來。
The Hair-crested Drongo (Dicrurus hottentottus) is an Asian bird of the family Dicruridae. This species was formerly considered conspecific with Dicrurus bracteatus, for which the name "Spangled Drongo" – formerly used for both – is now usually reserved. Some authorities include the Sumatran Drongo (D. sumatranus) in D. hottentottus as subspecies. It is native from India and Bhutan through Indochina to China, Indonesia, and Brunei (BirdLife International 2008). Hair-crested Drongos move in small flocks and are very noisy.