Drongo
Hair-crested drongo (D. hottentottus striatus)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Superfamily:	Corvoidea
Family:	Dicruridae Vigors, 1825
Genus:	Dicrurus Vieillot, 1816
Type species
Corvus balicassius (Balicassiao) Linnaeus, 1766

Dicrurus phylogeny

Dicruridae aeneus       paradiseus annectens     megarhynchus bracteatus   hottentotus balicassius remifer       waldenii   aldabranus forficatus       adsimilis macrocercus modestus   fuscipennis   leucophaeus   atripennis ludwigii

Cladogram based on a study by Eric Pasquet and colleagues published in 2007.[1]

The drongos are a family, Dicruridae, of passerine birds of the Old World tropics. The 31 species in the family are placed in a single genus, Dicrurus.

Drongos are mostly black or dark grey, short-legged birds, with an upright stance when perched. They have forked tails and some have elaborate tail decorations. They feed on insects and small birds, which they catch in flight or on the ground. Some species are accomplished mimics and have a variety of alarm calls, to which other birds and animals often respond. They are known to utter fake alarm calls that scare other animals off food, which the drongo then claims.

Taxonomy

The genus Dicrurus was introduced by French ornithologist Louis Pierre Vieillot for the drongos in 1816.^[2] The type species was subsequently designated as the balicassiao (Dicrurus balicassius) by English zoologist George Robert Gray in 1841.^[3][4] The name of the genus combines the Ancient Greek words dikros "forked" and oura "tail".^[5] "Drongo" is originally from the indigenous language of Madagascar, where it refers to the crested drongo; it is now used for all members of the family.^[6]

This family now includes only the genus Dicrurus, although Christidis and Boles (2007) expanded the family to include the subfamilies Rhipidurinae (Australasian fantails), Monarchinae (monarch and paradise flycatchers), and Grallininae (magpie larks).^[7]

The family was formerly treated as having two genera, Chaetorhynchus and Dicrurus. The genus Chaetorhynchus contains a single species, the New Guinea-endemic C. papuensis. On the basis of both morphological and genetic differences, it is now placed with the fantails (Rhipiduridae) and renamed from the pygmy drongo to the drongo fantail.^[8]

The genus Dicrurus contains 28 species:^[9]

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Image	Common Name	Scientific name	Distribution
	Square-tailed drongo	Dicrurus ludwigii	southern Africa.
	Sharpe's drongo	Dicrurus sharpei	southern South Sudan and western Kenya to the Democratic Republic of the Congo to Nigeria
	Shining drongo	Dicrurus atripennis	Cameroon, Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, and Togo.
	Fork-tailed drongo	Dicrurus adsimilis	Gabon, Congo Republic, DRC, Angola, northwestern Zambia, Namibia, Botswana and northwestern South Africa
	Velvet-mantled drongo	Dicrurus modestus	Nigeria and Cameroon to the Democratic Republic of Congo and Angola.
	Grande Comore drongo	Dicrurus fuscipennis	Comoros.
	Aldabra drongo	Dicrurus aldabranus	Seychelles
	Crested drongo	Dicrurus forficatus	Madagascar and Comoros
	Mayotte drongo	Dicrurus waldenii	Mayotte.
	Black drongo	Dicrurus macrocercus	Iran through Pakistan, India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka east to southern China and Indonesia and accidental visitor of Japan
	Ashy drongo	Dicrurus leucophaeus	eastern Afghanistan east to southern China, Ryukyu Islands in southern Japan (particularly Okinawa) and Indonesia.
	White-bellied drongo	Dicrurus caerulescens	India and Sri Lanka.
	Crow-billed drongo	Dicrurus annectens	Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brunei, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam.
	Bronzed drongo	Dicrurus aeneus	western Uttaranchal eastwards into Indochina and Hainan, the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra and northern Borneo
	Lesser racket-tailed drongo	Dicrurus remifer	Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand, and Vietnam.
	Balicassiao	Dicrurus balicassius	Philippines.
	Short-tailed drongo	Dicrurus striatus	Philippines.
	Hair-crested drongo	Dicrurus hottentottus	Bangladesh, India, and Bhutan through Indochina to China, Indonesia, and Brunei.
	Tablas drongo	Dicrurus menagei	Philippines.
	Palawan drongo	Dicrurus palawanensis	Palawan.
	Sumatran drongo	Dicrurus sumatranus	Sumatra in Indonesia.
	Wallacean drongo	Dicrurus densus	Indonesia and East Timor.
	Sulawesi drongo	Dicrurus montanus	Sulawesi in Indonesia.
	Spangled drongo	Dicrurus bracteatus	Australia, New Guinea, Indonesia