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Clicked in the backyard. 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.
Wild South Africa
Kruger National Park
This drab colored bird is a common resident in the Kruger National Park but you should not be misled by its appearance. The drongo is a highly intelligent bird and has the ability to mimic calls of other animals and it uses this skill to distract them. For example the Dwarf Mongoose has a number of different alarm calls for different predators. The drongo has learnt to imitate these calls. It will sit in trees above the foraging mongoose watching closely and waiting for one of them to catch something. At this point the drongo screeches the mimicked mongoose alarm call, sending the whole colony scattering for cover – leaving behind the food that they have just caught. The drongo then swoops in, picks up the abandoned food and heads back into the trees to enjoy the mongooses’ hard earned meal.
The Spangled Drongo takes up a position in a tree opposite my back door, from where it calls until I appear with some food. I toss the food in the air, it catches it, and when it has had enough, it flies away. In these visits, I discovered that the Spangled Drongo has several calls, it is also an accomplished mimic of other birds' calls. In this short video, it calls to me and mimics two other birds who live in my neighbourhood.
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
The Bronzed Drongo has metallic gloss with a spangled appearance on the head, neck and breast. The lores are velvety and the ear coverts dull. They are found in the Western Ghats and Eastern Ghats of India and the lower Himalayas from western Uttaranchal eastwards into Indochina and Hainan, the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra and northern Borneo. This species is usually found in moist broadleaved forest. These are aggressive and fearless birds, 24 cm in length, and will attack much larger species if their nest or young are threatened.
(Dicrurus leucophaeus) B28I6006.jpg Doi Lang Thailand North
There are several forms of Drongos, this one is the salangensis form. The color of the plumage goes from very light gray, almost white to a dark gray, bluish. There are crosses between the different forms, especially on the border between Thailand and Burma. This gives individuals variegated with dark spots of the most beautiful effect.
On the feathers of this guy you can see dark spots, that's not a shade effect !
An all-black, medium-sized drongo with a long forked tail and a strong bill. Juveniles usually have gray-white mottling on the belly.
Dicrurus leucophaeus
Bengali : Neel finga
Malayalam : കാക്കത്തമ്പുരാന് ( Kakka thampuran)
Tamil : Irattai vaalan kuruvi
Kannada : ಬೂದ್ ಕಾಕಳಿಚಿಟ್ಟೆ ( Bud kakalicitte )
Kashmiri : Gunkots / Telakots
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Drongo Ahorquillado, Fork-Tailed Drongo, Dicrurus adsimilis.
Especie # 1098
Kruger National Park
South Africa