Established in 1964, the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species has evolved to become the world’s most comprehensive information source on the global conservation status of animal, fungi and plant species. Glossy black overall with red eyes. External Links: Conservation Status: IUCN Red List Page Photos: Oriental Bird Images Sound Recordings: xeno-canto Link Wikipedia Entry: Wikipedia Link. Liz Bonnin presents the greater racket-tailed drongo of South-East Asia. Many of our tables are coded for abundance and presence.For printing a paper copy to take with you to your destination: here is how you can print a table. Share this: Twitter; Facebook; Like this: Like Loading... Search for: Search. Greater Racket-tailed Drongo at Faber Hill. The greater racket-tailed drongo was described by the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus in 1766 in the twelfth edition of his Systema Naturae under the binomial name Cuculus paradiseus. The greater racket-tailed drongo (Dicrurus paradiseus) is a medium-sized Asian bird which is distinctive in having elongated outer tail feathers with webbing restricted to the tips. An ebony shadow trailing obsidian tresses, this medium-sized drongo has two extravagantly long plume-tipped tail feathers when in breeding plumage.
Lesser Racket-tailed Drongo, Dicrurus remifer, (Lower risk (lc)) - Found in the Indian Subcontinent and Southeast Asia, ranging across Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand and Vietnam. ... A list of BBC episodes and clips related to "Birds of Hainan". To help Red List users interpret the changes between the Red List updates, a summary of species that have changed category between 2011 (IUCN Red List version 2011.2) and 2012 (IUCN Red List version 2012.2) and the reasons for these changes is provided in the table below. IUCN Red List least concern species (566) ... Liz Bonnin presents the greater racket-tailed drongo of South-East Asia. [3] It was one of 240 bird species that Linnaeus added to his twelfth edition based on the 1760 work Ornithologie by the French naturalist Mathurin Jacques Brisson. Inhabit subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.
Across a clearing in a Malaysian forest flies a dark bird, seemingly chased by two equally dark butterflies. Singapore Birds. It is often heard in the bush and can be … Their courtship display may involve hops and turns on branches with play behaviour involving dropping an object and picking it in mid air. The breeding season in India is April to August. It is found in India, Bangladesh and in Southern side of the Himalayan mountains. Also found in Southern China, on the island of Hainan, and in some parts of Indonesia. Can be confused with the larger Greater Racket-tailed Drongo, but Lesser is crestless and oddly flat-headed, with a more square-ended tail.