#1400 · 🐦 birds
Black Drongo
🇳🇱 Koningsdrongo ·Dicrurus macrocercus
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what is it?
The black drongo ( Dicrurus macrocercus ) is a small Asian passerine bird of the drongo family Dicruridae. It is a common resident breeder in much of tropical southern Asia from southwest Iran through India and Sri Lanka east to southern China and Indonesia. It is a wholly black bird with a distinctive forked tail and measures 28 cm (11 in) in length. It feeds on insects, and is common in open agricultural areas and light forest throughout its range,...
base stats
Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).
fun facts
- No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
- 25,009 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Louis Pierre Vieillot in 1817 (209 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Black Drongo
- Nederlands
- Koningsdrongo
- scientific name
- Dicrurus macrocercus
- class
- Aves
- order
- Passeriformes
- family
- Dicruridae
- IUCN Red List
- LC · least concern
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings worldwide
- 25,009
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1817 by Louis Pierre Vieillot
IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 8277, Wikidata Q46435, GBIF 2493970, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.