#dicrurus macrocercus

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Black Drongo

Dicrurus macrocercus

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"Black Drongo"

Fujifilm X-T5 / Tamron 150-500mm f5-6.7

photo by yotarosuite

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December 17, 2022 - Black Drongo (Dicrurus macrocercus) Found in much of southern and parts of eastern Asia, these drongos live in open habitats, including farmland, and in villages, suburbs, parks, and gardens. They feed primarily on insects, but also eat small vertebrates, including reptiles, mammals, birds, and fish, as well as nectar, and possibly seeds, often capturing insects flushed by large mammals, other birds, humans ploughing rice fields, and forest fires. Pairs build shallow cup-shaped nests from small twigs, rootlets, grass stems, plant fibers, spiderwebs, horsehair, and other materials, usually in trees. Both parents incubate the clutches of two to five eggs and care for the chicks, sometimes assisted by other adults.

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Black Drongo (Dicrurus macrocercus)

© Santharam V

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Black Drongo (Dicrurus macrocercus)

© Santharam V

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The Black Drongo - Dicrurus macrocercus.  The arching trellis of thorns above should grant it protection from any aerial attack.

Sagar Nagar Beach, North Sector, Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh. October 12, 2010.

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Black Drongo

Dicrurus macrocercus

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It was unclear whether these were eagles or hawks; but given that the latter generally outnumber the former, they were likely hawks. Note the little bird, completely black - possibly Dicrurus macrocercus, the Black Drongo - sitting right next to the duo on the barbed wire fence, utterly unmolested by them despite its diminutive size, peaceful co-existence apparently possible even between predatory and non-predatory avian species.

These hawks were by no means always still and stationary but would frequently circle in lazy loops on the thermal air currents rising up the face of the adjacent mountain baking in the blazing, burning heat of early summer.

March 1, 2020, Yarada Beach, Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh.