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What the Bronzed Drongo sounds like
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This drongo is somewhat smaller than the black drongo and has more metallic gloss with a spangled appearance on the head, neck and breast. The lores are velvety and the ear coverts are duller. The tail is slender and well forked with the outer tail feathers flaring outward slightly. Immatures have their axillaries tipped in white. The young bird is duller and brownish with less spangling. The nominate race is found in India and extending until the northern part of the Malay Peninsula.
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When to see the Bronzed Drongo
One bar for each month, and every month is filled: this bird is recorded here in all twelve. The wide bar is February, the month with the most records.
Where to see the Bronzed Drongo
The map shades 13 countries with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.
About the Bronzed Drongo
The bronzed drongo (Dicrurus aeneus) is a small Indomalayan bird belonging to the drongo group. They are resident in the forests of the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia. They capture insects flying in the shade of the forest canopy by making aerial sallies from their perches. They are very similar to the other drongos of the region but are somewhat smaller and compact with differences in the fork depth and the patterns of gloss on their feathers.
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Easily confused with
Spangled DrongoDicrurus bracteatusIts basically black plumage is iridescent with blue and purple highlights.
White-bellied DrongoDicrurus caerulescensThis drongo is black without any glossy feathers on the upperside and greyish on the throat and breast, while the belly and vent are entirely white in the Indian form which is the nominate subspecies.
Hair-crested DrongoDicrurus hottentottusThe hair-crested drongo is an Asian bird of the family Dicruridae.
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