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Genus: Dicrurus (28 species)


Fork-tailed Drongo (Dicrurus adsimilis) Range: AF: widespread in African savannas Marakele National Park, Limpopo, South Africa
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Fork-tailed Drongo (Dicrurus adsimilis divaricatus) Range: AF: widespread in African savannas The Gambia.
Photograph by Stephen G. Davis © All Rights Reserved.

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Bronzed Drongo (Dicrurus aeneus) Range: OR: Himalayas from nw India and Indian Pen. to s China, Taiwan, Vietnam, Sumatra and Borneo
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Aldabra Drongo (Dicrurus aldabranus) Near Threatened Range: AF: Aldabra (w Aldabra group, sw Seychelles)

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Andaman Drongo (Dicrurus andamanensis) Range: OR: Andaman Is.


Crow-billed Drongo (Dicrurus annectens) Range: OR: Himalayas from nw India to s China and Vietnam
Photograph by Daniel Koh (Singapore) © All Rights Reserved.

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Shining Drongo (Dicrurus atripennis) Range: AF: Sierra Leone and Liberia to ne DR Congo

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Balicassiao (Dicrurus balicassius) Range: OR: n, wc Philippines (Luzon and West Visayas)


Spangled Drongo (Dicrurus bracteatus bracteatus) Range: AU: Moluccas, New Guinea region, n, e Australia, Bismarck Arch. and Solomon Is. Wonga, Queensland, Australia
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White-bellied Drongo (Dicrurus caerulescens) Range: OR: India and Sri Lanka

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Wallacean Drongo (Dicrurus densus) Range: OR: Lesser Sundas and Moluccas


Crested Drongo (Dicrurus forficatus forficatus) Range: AF: Anjouan (ec Comoros) and Madagascar Ankarafantsika NP, Madagascar
Photograph by Nigel Voaden © All Rights Reserved.

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Grande Comore Drongo (Dicrurus fuscipennis) Endangered Range: AF: montane Grande Comore (nw Comoros)


Hair-crested Drongo (Dicrurus hottentottus) Range: OR, AU: widespread, also Sulawesi and Moluccas
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Ashy Drongo (Dicrurus leucophaeus) Range: OR: widespread Thailand
Photograph by Daniel Koh (Singapore) © All Rights Reserved.

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Sri Lanka Drongo (Dicrurus lophorinus) Range: OR: Sri Lanka


Square-tailed Drongo (Dicrurus ludwigii) Range: AF: e, s Africa South Africa
Photograph by Graham Searll © All Rights Reserved.


Black Drongo (Dicrurus macrocercus) Range: OR: se Iran and ne Afghanistan to ne China, Taiwan, and Vietnam; disjunctly Java and Bali Bueng Boraphet, Nahkon Sawon, Thailand
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Paradise Drongo (Dicrurus megarhynchus) Near Threatened Range: AU: New Ireland (ne Bismarck Arch.)

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Tablas Drongo (Dicrurus menagei) Endangered Range: OR: Tablas (c Philippines)


Velvet-mantled Drongo (Dicrurus modestus atactus) Range: AF: Sierra Leone to c DR Congo,w Kenya and nw Angola Kakum Canopy Walkway, Ghana
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Sulawesi Drongo (Dicrurus montanus) Range: AU: montane Sulawesi and Togian Is. (between ne and ec Sulawesi)

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Palawan Drongo (Dicrurus palawanensis) Range: OR: Palawan group and islets to ne (sw Philippines)


Greater Racket-tailed Drongo (Dicrurus paradiseus) Range: OR: widespread Kaeng Krachan, Phetchaburi, Thailand
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Lesser Racket-tailed Drongo (Dicrurus remifer) Male Range: OR: Himalayas from nw India to s China, Vietnam, Malay Pen., Sumatra and w Java Fraser's Hill, Pahang, Malaysia
Photograph by Wokoti © All Rights Reserved.

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Sharpe's Drongo (Dicrurus sharpei) Range: AF: Senegal to s Sudan, Uganda, w Kenya and nw Angola

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Short-tailed Drongo (Dicrurus striatus) Range: OR: ec, s Philippines (East Visayas and Mindanao group)

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Sumatran Drongo (Dicrurus sumatranus) Range: OR: montane Sumatra

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Mayotte Drongo (Dicrurus waldenii) Vulnerable Range: AF: Mayotte (se Comoros)

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