Drongos
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The drongos are a subfamily of small passerine birds of the Old World tropics.
Drongo
Related Category: Vertebrate Zoology
(drng´g), any of the insect-eating Old World birds of the family Dicruridae. Most species have black plumage with an iridescent purple or green shimmer and long, deeply forked tails.
Drongo, Black aka Crow Drongo Dicrurus macrocercus Found: Asia
Photographed by: 1, 2) Ravi Vaidyanathan 3) J M Garg in Kolkata, West Bengal, India
See also Southern Black Flycatcher for a similar named species.
Ashy Drongo (Dicrurus leucophaeus) is a widespread resident in India. Size: 29 cm Differentiated from Black Drongo by its reddish eyes and lack of white rictal spot.
Like other drongos, these feed mainly on insects but also feed on fruits and visit flowering trees for nectar. Having short legs, they sit upright and are often perched on high and exposed branches.
Spangled Drongo waits to visit the feeder at Cassowary House.
The Spotted Catbird is a very aggressive visitor to the feeders.
Family Dicruridae (drongos)
Family Eupetidae (whipbirds, wedgebills, and jewelbabblers)
Family Falcunculidae (shrike-tits) ...
Bird-mimics steal meerkats' food Drongos in the Kalahari mimic the alarm calls of other species in order to steal food from meerkats, scientists find.
Compare the Meerkats at Manx park
Bristol Zoo's meerkat manor plan ...
Ashy drongo (Dicrurus leucophaeus)
Blue-and-yellow tanager (Thraupis bonariensis)
Eurasian hobby (Falco subbuteo)
Burrowing owl (Athene cunicularia)
Peregrine falcon (Falco peregrinus)
Bridled white-eye (Zosterops conspicillatus) ...
Carst, valley, forest edge, open woodland. Flying low and mobbed by several Hair-crested Drongo.
Taxonomic Notes :
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Of the many characteristic birds may be mentioned Pycnonotidae or bulbuls, of which the Phyllornithinae are peculiar, Campephagidae or cuckoo-shrikes, Dicruridae or drongos, Nectariniidae or sunbirds; pheasants, together with Pavo and Gallus.
plush-capped finch, saltators & cardinal-grosbeaks, tanagers, swallow tanager, bananaquit, New World warblers, Hawaiian honeycreepers, vireos, New World blackbirds, finches, Estrildid finches, weavers, starlings, Old World orioles, drongos, ...
 See also: Flycatcher, Shrike, Magpie, Pheasant, Purple
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