Velvet-mantled Drongo

When to see the Velvet-mantled Drongo

One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 11 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is November, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Velvet-mantled Drongo

The map shades 18 countries with regular records, and 1 more in a lighter tone where the bird turns up only as a stray. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

Recorded as a rare visitor in South Sudan.

About the Velvet-mantled Drongo

The velvet-mantled drongo is a species of bird in the family Dicruridae. It is found throughout the Cameroon line and the African tropical rainforest.

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Easily confused with

BalicassiaoDicrurus balicassiusThe balicassiao is a species of passerine bird in the family Dicruridae. Crow-billed DrongoDicrurus annectensThis bird, which is similar to the black drongo, is jet-black in color and has a stout bill. Andaman DrongoDicrurus andamanensisThe Andaman drongo is 28-29 cm long, although the larger dicruriformis subspecies is 35 cm in length.