Hair-crested drongo
| Hair-crested drongo | |
|---|---|
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| Adult in Singapore | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Dicruridae |
| Genus: | Dicrurus |
| Species: | D. hottentottus |
| Binomial name | |
| Dicrurus hottentottus (Linnaeus, 1766) | |
The hair-crested drongo (Dicrurus hottentottus) is an Asian bird of the family Dicruridae. This species was formerly considered conspecific with Dicrurus bracteatus, for which the name "spangled drongo" – formerly used for both – is now usually reserved. Some authorities include the Sumatran drongo (D. sumatranus) in D. hottentottus as subspecies (Lepage 2003).
It is native from India and Bhutan through Indochina to China, Indonesia, and Brunei (BirdLife International 2008). Hair-crested drongos move in small flocks and are very noisy. The "spangled drongo," Dicrurus bracteatus is native on the east coast of Australia and its name is pejorative slang for a silly person. This may be due to its strange chattering and cackling. _"Complete Book of Australian Birds" Reader's Digest.1977.
References
- ↑ BirdLife International (2013). "Dicrurus hottentottus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.2. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 26 November 2013.
Media related to Hair-crested drongo at Wikimedia Commons
- Lepage, Denis (2003). "Spangled Drongo (Dicrurus hottentottus)". Avibase - The World Bird Database. Retrieved 2009-04-10. See also this more specific page.