Dicrurus macrocercus

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Interesting Facts

Common Names

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Description

Habitat

Ecology: List of Habitats :

•     2     Savanna   
  
•     2.1     Savanna - Dry   
  
•     3     Shrubland   
  
•     3.6     Shrubland - Subtropical/Tropical Moist   
  
•     4     Grassland   
  
•     4.5     Grassland - Subtropical/Tropical Dry   
  
•     14     Artificial/Terrestrial   
  
•     14.1     Artificial/Terrestrial - Arable Land   
  
•     14.5     Artificial/Terrestrial - Urban Areas   
  
•     14.6     Artificial/Terrestrial - Subtropical/Tropical Heavily Degraded Former Forest   
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Taxonomy

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Last scrutiny: 17-Oct-2001

Similar Species

Members of the genus Dicrurus

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 40 species and subspecies in this genus:

D. adsimilis (Fork-Tailed Drongo) · D. adsimilis adsimilis (Fork-Tailed Drongo) · D. adsimilis divaricatus (Senegal Fork-Tailed Drongo) · D. aeneus (Bronzed Drongo) · D. aldabranus (Aldabra Drongo) · (Small Andaman Drongo) · D. andamanensis andamanensis (Small Andaman Drongo) · D. annectans (Crow-Billed Drongo) · D. atripennis (Shining Drongo) · D. balicassius (Balicassio Drongo) · D. balicassius balicassius (Balicassio Drongo) · D. bracteatus (Spangled Drongo) · D. bracteatus bracteatus (Spangled Drongo) · D. caerulescens (Indian White-Bellied Drongo) · D. caerulescens caerulescens (Indian White-Bellied Drongo) · D. densus (Wallacean Drongo) · D. forficatus (Madagascar Crested Drongo) · D. forficatus forficatus (Crested Drongo) · D. fuscipennis (Grand Comoro Drongo) · D. hottentottus (Hair-Crested Drongo) · D. hottentottus hottentottus (Hair-Crested Drongo) · D. leucophaeus (Pale Ashy Drongo) · D. leucophaeus leucophaeus (Pale Ashy Drongo) · D. ludwigii (Square-Tailed Drongo) · D. ludwigii ludwigii (Ludwig's Square-Tailed Drongo) · D. ludwigii sharpei (Sharpe's Drongo) · D. macrocercus (Black Drongo) · D. megarhynchus (Ribbon-Tailed Drongo) · D. menagei (Tablas Drongo) · D. modestus (Velvet-Mantled Drongo) · D. modestus atactus (Gold Coast Fork-Tailed Drongo) · D. modestus coracinus (Uganda Velvet-Mantled Drongo) · D. modestus modestus (Principe Drongo) · D. montanus (Celebes Mountain Drongo) · D. paradiseus (Greater Racket-Tailed Drongo) · D. paradiseus paradiseus (Greater Racket-Tailed Drongo) · D. remifer (Lesser Racket-Tailed Drongo) · D. remifer remifer (Lesser Racket-Tailed Drongo) · (Sumatran Drongo) · D. waldenii (Mayotte Drongo)

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Further Reading

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• A catalogue of the collection of birds formed by the late Hugh Edwin Strickland. Cambridge, Univ. Press, 1882. url p. 116.
• A hand-list of genera and species of birds of the Indian empire, by E. C. Stuart Baker. .. Bombay, Printed by order of the committee of the Bombay natural history society[1923] url p. 47.
• A history of the birds of Ceylon / London: Published by the author, 1880 [i.e. 1878-1880] url p. 245, p. 386, p. 390.
• A revised catalogue of the birds of China and its islands, with descriptions of new species, references to former notes, and occasional remarks. By Robert Swinhoe. London, 1871 url p. 41.
• An account of the collections of birds made by Mr. William Doherty in the Eastern Archipelago. London, 1896 url p. 547.
• Animals of no importance. Calcutta, Thacker[n.d.] url p. 84.
• Animate creation: popular edition of "Our living world": a natural history / by the Rev. J.G. Wood. New York: Selmar Hess, c1898. url p. 272.
• Animate creation; popular edition of "Our Living World" a natural history, by the Rev. J. G. Wood. Revised and adapted to American zoology, by Joseph B. Holder. New York, S. Hess[1898] url p. 316.
• Birds of Asia / by John Gould. III 1850-83 London: Printed by Taylor and Francis, pub. by the author, 1850-1883. url p. .
• Birds. London, Taylor and Francis, 1889-1898. url .
• Bulletin - United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.];1877-1971. url p. 260, p. 279, p. 544, p. 578, p. 580, p. 612.
• Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). London: The Museum, 1950-1977. url p. 530.
• Catalogue of the birds in the Museum Asiatic Society / by Edward Blyth. Published by order of the society. Calcutta: J. Thomas, 1849. url p. 202.
• Catalogue of the birds of the peninsula of India, arranged according to the modern system of classification: with brief notes on their habits and geographical distribution, and description of new, do S.l., 1844? url p. 121.
• Catalogue of the collection of birds' eggs in the British museum (Natural history). London: Printed by order of the Trustees, 1901-12. url p. 439.
• Catalogue of the specimens and drawings of mammalia and birds of Nepal and Thibet. Presented by B.H. Hodgson to the British Museum. London, By order of the Trustees, 1846. url p. 98.
• Ceylon; an account of the island, physical, historical, and topographical, with notices of its natural history, antiquities and productions, by Sir James Emerson Tennent. London: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1860. url p. 178.
• Check-list of birds of the world. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1931-1987. url p. 141.
• Handbook to the birds of the Bombay presidency, by Lieut. H. Edwin Barnes. .. Calcutta, The Calcutta Central Press, 1885. url p. 154, p. 154.
• IUCN Directory of Protected Areas in Oceania IUCN url p. 318, p. 438.
• Ibis. [London]Published for the British Ornithologists' Union by Academic Press. url p. 118, p. 12, p. 121, p. 136, p. 340, p. 345, p. 361, p. 369, p. 409, p. 431, p. 441, p. 86.
• Illustrations of Indian ornithology: containing fifty figures of new, unfigured and interesting species of birds, chiefly from the south of India / 1847 Madras: Printed by P.R. Hunt, American Mission Press, 1847. url .
• Journal and proceedings of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. 4 1908 Calcutta, Asiatic Society of Bengal. url p. 57, p. 58, p. 66, p. 69, p. 77.
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• Notes on the pearl and chank fisheries and marine fauna of the Gulf of Manaar / by Edgar Thurston. Madras: Printed by the Supt., Govt. Press, 1890. url p. 54.
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• Our living world; an artistic edition of the Rev. J. G. Wood's Natural history of animate creation. New York: S. Hess, [1885] url p. 272.
• Postilla. 1968 New Haven, Conn.: Peabody Museum of Natural History, [1950?]-c2004. url p. 29.
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• The Review of applied entomology. Farnham Royal, Eng., etc.: Commonwealth Agricultural Bureaux, etc. url p. 502, p. 692.
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Notes

Contributors

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Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal March 13, 2008:

• Canadian Biodiversity Information Facility: Provincial Museum of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada. Birds (Aves)

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 4274
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-179656
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 2495134
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 179656
• IUCN ID: 205318
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 137776

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