GREATER RACKET-TAILED DRONGO

 

Photographed at Dong Nai Nature Reserve, Vietnam, May 2024.

   (902)                  GREATER RACKET-TAILED DRONGO                 Dicrurus paradiseus

VIETNAM                  15

The greater racket-tailed drongo (Dicrurus paradiseus) is a medium-sized Asian bird which is distinctive in having elongated outer tail feathers with webbing restricted to the tips. They are placed along with other drongos in the family Dicruridae. They are conspicuous in the forest habitats often perching in the open and by attracting attention with a wide range of loud calls that include perfect imitations of many other birds. 

GREATER RACKET-TAILED DRONGO

Photographed on Langkawi, March 2017

(*  902)              GREATER RACKET-TAILED DRONGO                Dicrurus paradiseus

MALAYSIA                 13

Seen in the canopy and middle storey of lowland evergreen forest from extreme lowland evergreen rainforest from extreme lowlands to c. 850 m, and in mangroves, tree plantations, parkland with abundant trees and secondary woodland. 32-57 cm. Resident from Indian sub-continent eastward to Hainan and through Peninsula Malaysia, Singapore, Sumatra, Borneo, Java, Bali.

GREATER RACKET-TAILED DRONGO

Subspecies platurus photographed in Singapore November 2016

902                  GREATER RACKET-TAILED DRONGO              Dicrurus paradiseus

SINGAPORE               (46)

Common resident of primary and secondary rainforests, forest edge, scrub and old plantations. 34 cm (+ 30 cm tail). Distribution: much of Indian sub-continent, S China, mainland Southeast Asia, Thai-Malay Peninsula and Greater Sundas.