Drongos
Dicrurus
The drongos, subfamily Dicrurinae, are a subfamily of small passerine birds of the Old World tropics in the family Dicruridae. Originally the family included the single genus Dicrurus (subfamily Dicrurinae), but now it has been expanded to include the subfamilies Rhipidurinae (Australasian fantails), Monarchinae (monarchs and paradise flycatchers) and Grallininae (magpie-larks). The subfamily Dicrurinae contains two genera, the monotypic Chaetorhynchus, and Dicrurus, which contains about 25 species. The placement of the pygmy drongo (Chaetorhynchus papuensis) in...
28 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 28 known species
Black Drongo
speciesDicrurus macrocercus
Fork-tailed Drongo
speciesDicrurus adsimilis
Greater Racket-tailed Drongo
speciesDicrurus paradiseus
Ashy Drongo
speciesDicrurus leucophaeus
Spangled Drongo
speciesDicrurus bracteatus
Bronzed Drongo
speciesDicrurus aeneus
Hair-crested Drongo
speciesDicrurus hottentottus
White-bellied Drongo
speciesDicrurus caerulescens
Crested Drongo
speciesDicrurus forficatus
Lesser Racket-tailed Drongo
speciesDicrurus remifer
Crow-billed Drongo
speciesDicrurus annectens
Square-tailed Drongo
speciesDicrurus ludwigii
Sri Lanka Drongo
speciesDicrurus lophorinus
Wallacean Drongo
speciesDicrurus densus
Velvet-mantled Drongo
speciesDicrurus modestus
Balicassiao
speciesDicrurus balicassius
Andaman Drongo
speciesDicrurus andamanensis
Short-tailed Drongo
speciesDicrurus striatus
Palawan Drongo
speciesDicrurus palawanensis
Shining Drongo
speciesDicrurus atripennis
Sulawesi Drongo
speciesDicrurus montanus
Sharpe's Drongo
speciesDicrurus sharpei
Mayotte Drongo
speciesDicrurus waldenii
Sumatran Drongo
speciesDicrurus sumatranus
Aldabra Drongo
speciesDicrurus aldabranus
Tablas Drongo
speciesDicrurus menagei
Grande Comore Drongo
speciesDicrurus fuscipennis
Ribbon-tailed Drongo
speciesDicrurus megarhynchus
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 8263.