Greater Racket-tailed Drongo

Dicrurus paradiseus - Drongo à raquettes

Systematics

Order
:
Passeriformes
Family
:
Dicruridés
Genus
:
Dicrurus
Species
:
paradiseus

Descriptor

Linnaeus, 1766

Biometrics

Size
: 65 cm
Wingspan
: -
Weight
: 70 à 125 g

Geographic range

Distribution

Identification

Greater Racket-tailed Drongo (Dicrurus paradiseus) is a species of bird in the Dicruridae family.

Subspecific information 13 subspecies

Dicrurus paradiseus paradiseus (s India to s Thailand, n Malay Pen. and s Indochina)
Dicrurus paradiseus grandis (n India through w and n Myanmar and s China to n Indochina)
Dicrurus paradiseus rangoonensis (c India through Bangladesh, c Myanmar and n Thailand to c Indochina)
Dicrurus paradiseus johni (Hainan I.. off se China.)
Dicrurus paradiseus ceylonicus (Sri Lanka)
Dicrurus paradiseus otiosus (Andaman Is.)
Dicrurus paradiseus nicobariensis (Nicobar Is.)
Dicrurus paradiseus hypoballus (c Malay Pen.)
Dicrurus paradiseus platurus (s Malay Pen., Sumatra and nearby islands)
Dicrurus paradiseus microlophus (islands in the South China Sea)
Dicrurus paradiseus brachyphorus (Borneo)
Dicrurus paradiseus banguey (islands off n Borneo)
Dicrurus paradiseus formosus (Java)

Foreign names

Drongo à raquettes,
Drongo de raquetas grande,
drongo-de-raquetes-grande,
Flaggendrongo,
paradicsomdrongó,
Vlaggendrongo,
Drongo codaracchetta maggiore,
större vimpeldrongo,
Dragedrongo,
drongo zástavkový,
drongo vlajkový,
Stor Pragtdrongo,
viiridrongo,
drongo d'estandarts gros,
dziwogon rajski,
Райский дронго,
Srigunting batu,
カザリオウチュウ,
大盘尾,
นกแซงแซวหางบ่วงใหญ่,
大盤尾,

Voice song and cries

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Habitat

Forest : Subtropical/Tropical Moist Lowland, Subtropical/Tropical Mangrove Vegetation Above High Tide Level, Subtropical/Tropical Swamp, Subtropical/Tropical Moist Montane ; Artificial/Terrestrial : Plantations, Subtropical/Tropical Heavily Degraded Former Forest