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.