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

Drongo à raquettes
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Drongo à raquettes
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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

Drongo à raquettes
adult

Habitat

Drongo à raquettes
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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

Geographic range

Threats - protection

IUCN conservation status
Extinct
Threatened
Least
concern
Extinc
in the Wild
Near
threatened
Not
evaluated
EX EW CR EN VU NT LC NE

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